Comment by jonkoops

I have converted several large E2E test suites from Cypress to Playwright, and I can vouch that it is the better option. Cypress seems to work well at first, but it is extremely legacy heavy, its API is convoluted and unintuitive, and stacks a bunch of libraries/frameworks together. In comparison, Playwright's API is much more intuitive, yes you must 'await' a lot, but it is a lot easier to handle side effects (e.g. making API calls), it can all just be promises.

It is also just really easy to write a performant test suite with Playwright, it is easy to parallelize, which is terrible in Cypress, almost intentionally so to sell their cloud products, which you do not need. The way Playwright works just feels more intuitive and stable to me.