Even AP is is "autosteer (beta)" so I sure do feel like part of their QA team. And it drives like a slightly inebriated human.

I do have high hopes that the work they've done on the FSD stack will make for a significant improvement to basic AP whenever they get merged (assuming it ever happens; it has been talked about for years). That'd be nice.

what do you call them? there's no way possible that they can make changes to the software and have them thoroughly vetted before the OTA push. Tesla does not have enough cars owned by the company driving on public roads to vet these changes. The QA team at best can analyze the data received from the customers. That makes the customers the testers in my book.