Inside Fix: Repair Playwright Startup Helpers

Playwright’s first-run onboarding flow no longer delivers a blank slate - developers are now hitting false E2E failures like ‘input not found’ because the suite assumes a ‘New Project’ loads instantly. This mismatch undermines reliability and wastes precious debug time. Fixing startup helpers to align with the real onboarding path solves a hidden bottleneck in modern QA. nnThe core issue: legacy test setups still treat the first run as a fresh project, even when a project was seeded earlier. This triggers broken assertions on UI elements like input fields and buttons, turning real user moments into stale regressions. nnHere’s what’s at stake:n- real-user-scenarios.spec.ts throws ‘cannot find input[type=