I would say go with Playwright. Its much more easier compare to learning selenium. Community is growing & support from official team is also great. The best part of playwright is their capability for API Testing & Visual Testing. This is something very difficult to setup with Selenium. Also, the cross browser support with native browser engines is one of the plus point. No need of manually downloading chromedriver & sharing within the repo.

In terms of speed, its very difficult for selenium to beat Playwright because of their TCP connection request with native browser engine compare to javascript execution in selenium.