Inner to outer rocker weld

[BrianG]

While under my truck the other day installing the step rails, I noticed that the body shop did not weld the inner rockers to the outer rockers. In fact, it is worse than that. From what I understand, the inner rocker should match up to the outer rocker and be spot welded together along the bottom flange. Well, what they did instead, is cut the inner rocker so that it sits just above the flange. From the outside, it looks decent. You see the flange, don't see any double metal (cause there is only one layer) from the inside (under the cab) you can see the inner cut just above the welding flange and not attached to anything.

Structurally, or long term, will this be a problem? does the weld add strength to the outer rocker? I guess it seems like it really would. The truck is all painted. I have had it back from them for a while now and just never noticed this. I'm not a body work person and wouldn't have thought to even look for something like this. I only noticed it because I was putting on the step bars. I have not been driving the truck yet, so I can's say that it has or hasn't been an issue, but want some opinions of other's who would actually know.