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It depends on how you define quality.
And of course as already mentioned injection molding is a much better fit for mass production.
I'm not in the space, but what's your opinion of acetone vapor treatments to get a bit higher polish for fdm?
I haven't tried it myself yet but from the results I've seen online it seems like a good way to decrease roughness. But you still you have to print with a low layer height since larger layers result in deeper crevices which can't be mitigated by the vapor. And its nothing I would try without proper safety measures. Of course you can also sand and polish your surfaces by hand but especially larger surfaces get really tedious really quick :D