The worst thing is how often developers almost fatalistically accept that testing sucks. I don't blame them though because improving the test infrastructure has little short-term business value or so they say.
You could spend your entire life improving test infrastructure. There's clearly a cut off point where the investment stops making sense but it's hard to know when.
The investment calculation is quite complex and many of the variables require guesses. A lot of returns on automation work are not positive.
The irony is that is absolutely does have business value. Unfortunately, it's easier to quantify the problems you've had on prod than the problems you've prevented on prod, so people tend to measure against the former.
