Call me Skeptical...............but.
I don't think you're skeptical.
I think you've already made your mind up (certainly your tone and choice of words suggests that).
this is a information forum,correct??....And who made you the voice of the BA,s????
I'm not the voice of the BAs.
But I've been on this forum long enough to recognise the difference between healthy debate and information sharing and what looks to be a crowd of people with a rope tied in the form of a slipnot.
I can also see how, if I were someone who was time poor and earned good coin, that a BA could be a worthwhile expense. You've said you don't get why people use a BA. What's not to get about that?
And maybe if you dialled down the tone and took the pov that while the services of a BA might not be for you, but they could be for some people, then you might get some more answers. But as it stands you've essentially taken the "guilty until proven innocent" line.
And I think that's in bad taste and not what an information forum is all about.
Even Sim said:
you are NOT welcome to challenge them personally and effectively accuse almost an entire industry of being crooks, which is what you have done