Does using grid search for hyperparemeters make test set redundant? The purpose of train, validate and test data splits addresses the issue of data leakage when tuning for the model's hyperparameters. Does Grid Search then eliminates the need for test set? Because grid search would already return the optimum hyperparamaters without users having to adjust the hyperparameters again. Hence, that makes the final left out test set redundant.
 A: A good model selection question.

Because Grid Search would already return the optimum hyperparamaters without users having to adjust the hyperparameters again.

A grid type search for finding out best performing hyper-parameters
qualifies as tuning, either values are selected on the grid or with an auxiliary algorithm, i.e., a Bayesian optimisation or random search methods.

that makes the final left out test set redundant.

No. Because we still need to select the "best" hyper-parameters on the grid and having a separate validation set for this purpose will reduce overtraining, i.e, in the sense that we shouldn't rely on the same dataset for both model parameters and hyper-parameters. Even for using grid-search, it is generally recommended to split training-validation sets and use the test for measuring the learning performance.
A great paper discussing the importance of keeping validation set could guide here us a bit better from Manchester & Liverpool teams:
On Splitting Training and Validation Set: A Comparative Study of Cross-Validation, Bootstrap and Systematic Sampling for Estimating the Generalization Performance of Supervised Learning
Yun Xu & Royston Goodacre
Journal of Analysis and Testing volume 2, pages 249–262 (2018) doi
Figure 1 from the paper:

