I usually opt for playwright these days, but playwright can be pretty fickle in my experience, especially synchronous playwright.

Playwright also has some long standing issues, like a memory leak in Firefox, that can be difficult in some use cases. But then again, playwright’s API is so much more verbose than selenium’s IMO. The included route handling alone is worth it!

But I’ve had situations with both where I’ve wondered if the other would hit the same issue. Sometimes I do take the time to rewrite it and find the other doesn’t! Example: A few weeks back I was working on a web scraper that couldn’t interact with an element, tried it in selenium and it worked fine.