Playwright

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2022–2026), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Playwright, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Agent clicks wrong elements, misses clicks, and loses state on re-render2026-04-22
Fails to click buttons because it doesn't pierce frames correctly2026-02-06
Intro docs push pytest setup; direct library usage is buried and confusing2024-02-20
Playwright is unintuitive in places, with concepts that don't feel as sensible as Cypress2023-07-12
Each selector attempt takes 60-90 seconds waiting for test runs, making authoring very slow2022-08-26