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It's the most general method. Anything else would frequently need maintenance because of site changes or browser changes.
As long as the OS and the browser manage to update themselves and you upgrade the hardware every few years, this method will keep working basically forever.
It's why agentic GUI automation that receives video and outputs keybarod/mouse commands will eventually win over anything else until they implement trusted computing with biometric signals that require that a human be actually present and paying attention to the screen, then we'll go back to paying indians to do data entry.
As a NEET with a 10 year old crusty twinkpad, sure, it makes more sense to do an html automation. When you're a big company with thousands of automations across all your offices and a dedicated team being paid $100/hour to develop them and keep them working, you would rather spend hundreds of dollars just to do that one stupid job if it means nor or minimal dev hours.
t. somebody who works at GUI automation and who's job is to nanny Selenium scripts 8 hours a day
