Make random comparisons from other industries all you want, this whole conversation is about game devs and to think that people inherently involved in the development of a game "are not developers" is absolutely part of the industry's current problems.
This ancient attitude is the same upper management position where cutting swathes of knowledgable established QA will bring short term profits only to later hire even more fresh QAs, often contractors or outsourced.
You think QA has never seen a line of code? If we ignore what another commenter mentioned that there are high level QA jobs that are very technical, or are literally coding positions, even a lot of entry level QA also have formal education on game design. Many go on to be designers, coders, artists. Do they only become actual developers then?
What's the imaginary line to being part of game dev to you?
I feel like I only need to reply to this, because this is the second time I've directly replied to something you said using your own words, to then have you say those words don't matter.
It also completely ignores the point I was making that some "QA" code, some pick through code, some may not understand it at all, but why are any of those not classed as developers?
Oh I see, so you are indeed only calling programmers developers. Absolutely unhinged take.