Every QA team lives the same false choice. Manual testing is thorough but slow. Traditional automation is fast — until the app changes, the selectors rot, and the suite quietly decays until nobody trusts it. Meanwhile, releases ship daily. Something always gives, and it is usually coverage, and then quality.
We felt that pain firsthand, release after release. The problem was never that QA teams don't care. It's that writing and maintaining tests by hand is a full-time job stacked on top of the one you already have.