Isn't Selenium vs Playwright more a Java vs JS/ES/TS thing?

I've personally implemented Playwright in a large enterprise company. Puppeteer before that.

Generally if you have a lot of legacy selenium scripts it's probably not worth it to switch everything over, but if you're creating a new UI automation framework I've just never seen selenium as a first choice for that.

Don't get me wrong it's still solid technology though.

same in my experience.