[benihana]

>and everyone should be rewarded or penalized based on the number of issues found post-release.

this sounds absolutely horrible. What a great way to remove all agency and ownership from an organization and incentivize people to pass the buck off to literally anyone but themselves and to work on easy, cupcake features with no risk.

>This keeps the devs incentivized to make sure everything works before the code goes to QA, and it keeps everyone incentivized to eliminate as many bugs as possible before release.

What kind of organization are you working in where you think devs have to be motivated by punishment or reward? Do you not hire the kind of people who are intrinsically motivated and want to produce software that doesn't have bugs? Do you think that if you don't explicitly incentivize developers not to write bugs that they would just fuck around and make shitty, buggy software? I just can't imagine working in an organization so dysfunctional that leadership thinks the default state is being happy with shitty buggy software.