It's popular because these war stories you find in blog posts are pure survivorship bias.
If I'd let every fucking team member go on an exploratory bug hunt whenever they feel like it (hint: that would be always) we would never get anything done.
What if they don't find anything? Is this issue really worth 2 weeks of dev time? That's 15k down the drain for a senior engineer, if not more.
If I'd let every fucking team member go on an exploratory bug hunt whenever they feel like it (hint: that would be always) we would never get anything done.
What if they don't find anything? Is this issue really worth 2 weeks of dev time? That's 15k down the drain for a senior engineer, if not more.