This change did not happen in 2014. It happened about 14 years earlier, when they began to adopt their so-called “engineering culture” that really meant “tester

This change did not happen in 2014. It happened about 14 years earlier, when they began to adopt their so-called “engineering culture” that really meant “testers shut up.” It then happened at Google in the early oughts. Testers have been under attack in big tech since 1989, within my own experience. Maybe before that, as well.