Well it isn’t that Playwright solves these issues, but using Page (And Component) Object Model solves them instead of using Recorder. I mentioned Playwright, because it is the future of automated tests for web. Selenium is not reliable, it is not supporting very well, because as I said, there are many situations that just don’t work. If you look at Selenium IDE, it’s kinda like Notepad in comparison to Word. It can’t work with data for example. It is so simple I think best description of it, is that it’s like Notapad 
But Selenium is something like 15 years old, don’t you think it should have better official IDE? Selenium is dying, I am pretty confident. Because it’s just don’ work reliably …
Playwright now also have recording feature, but I don’t recommend anybody to use it at all for any Enterprise Application. If a person can’t code, I don’t think he can create good quality tests for Enterprise Application. I don’t think that Playwright is even promoting to use this recorder, because it’s all about CODING tests, which is very correct approach.
And what about advantages of Playwright in comparison to Selenium? I found a good article that lists them:
But in my perception, it has much better internals, it doesn’t use WebDriver, but is rather much more tightly coupled with Browsers. It is faster, it has better selectors and is much more reliable. And there is Microsoft behind it. And to be honest, the number 1 company in the world for making programming frameworks and programming ecosystems and stuff like this is without no doubt: Microsoft. It’s fantastic .NET 6, it’s just soo awesome nobody else can compete with it. Visual Studio 2022, it’s just very good. And to complete the list, C# is the best programming language by far. So it’s like a huge con, that Microsoft is behind it. But it is also open sourced.
But to say some cons too, Playwright is very young, about year and few months old I think, so it is not very mature yet, I assume it still have many bugs. But once it mature more, it will be sooo best. And another con, it still doesn’t have a complete Testing IDE like Katalon Studio is, but you can use it in Visual Studio and connect some Testing Framework like NUnit to it.
I haven’t tested it that much, but I am somehow pretty confident, that it’s so awesome from what I know about it. And Microsoft behind it, it just totally gives me that confidence 
A also wrote a post here in Katalon Forum, that Katalon Devs should consider to start supporting Playwright as well:
And one last thing to say about Playwright: It can be used with many different languages, like C#, Java (that’s why it could be easily brought to Katalon Studio), Javascript and Python as well I think.
But I totally think it should be used with C#.
But to solve all these aforementioned issues, it’s not just Playwright vs Selenium. It’s also Coding test vs. Recording them.
What do you think about it?