That’s fair, because there’s process elements in place to mitigate risk. I read your comment to say “get rid of QA” not “get rid of the separate QA team”. My comment was more pointed to those who feel testing is inherently wasteful. In your example, the testing and configuration is tightly controlled to mitigate the same risk as a QA than (although there may be something to be said about the best practice of having the QA team be independent). Where I get nervous is when testing gets cut in hazardous systems because of cost or schedule. I personally wouldn’t want to get on a plane or autonomous car built like that. My own personal anecdotal experience is that organizations that were cavalier about QA on safety critical hardware/software inevitably had their comeuppance
