I like what you're doing with Helium, and while you are technically correct that it's half as long - IMHO it's a bit disingenuous considering that in any meaningful web automation script, you'd only need to put in the initialization code a single time, e.g.:

    from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
    playwright = sync_playwright().start()
    browser = playwright.chromium.launch()
    page = browser.new_page()