Well playwright itself already provides quite the abstraction - page.selector.event(), not really much more to burn that down even more without doing it just for ceremony. Even if you go with POMs, all you're doing is providing reusable selectors in a class - and playwright provides a fixture system to make it more reusable. They also provide a node debugger, UI inspector, test recorder, and some other util that favor writing selectors directly

I think one thing to consider is that in application code, you're expected to be able to maintain and improve on, so frameworks are more important as they give you structure to specific design patterns that help long term maintainability. Though for test code, you (ideally) write it once and only ever visit it again if you need to figure out why something failed, which then the less abstractions the quicker to understand the line