> Cypress lumped in and dismissed like that

I think Cypress is really cool when you're on their happy path - testing on Chromium browsers and in JavaScript.

I tried it some time ago so maybe this might be outdated, but they had little support for browsers other than Chromium or even rather Electron based and also it was a little difficult to wire up with Gherkin scenarios.

Keep in mind that the OP refers to Python tools, AFAIK Cypress does not offer Python bindings while both Selenium and Playwright do.