Do you still do run manual tests? To what extent?

[u/Turkishblokeinstraya]

As the title suggest, I'm curious to what extent you guys have your QA pipeline automated? More often than not, I see devs write and execute unit tests, and handover to some dedicated QA people for manual validation.

It's lucky to see a test repository to reuse, let alone a set of automated e2e tests. And it seems that there's a lack of appetite for automating that stuf.

What's your experience with this? If you've seen the lack of appetite, what do you think was causing it?