thanks! yeah, playwright was a huge improvement there -- waiting until an element was actually ready. the official posture from the selenium project ("figure it out, be explicit") wasn't always the most user friendly messaging.

having to add ids to elements is one of those classic tradeoffs -- the alternative was to use css or xpath selectors, which can be even worse, maintenance-wise. i'm secretly hoping ai code-gen apps pumped out by things like Lovable or Claude Code automagically generate element test-ids and the tests for you and we never have to worry about it again.