I don't think it exemplifies that at all. Using Playwright absolutely is, but that was my niche fallback to the lack of an integrated AI solution.

The use-case, which generalised is "pull some information from a web page", is far less niche, and I'd argue extremely common.

I know a lot of people - including non-technical people - who spend a lot of time doing that in ways ranging from entirely manual to somewhat more sophisticated, and the more technically knowledgeable of those have started looking for AI tools to help them with that.

To the extent users "don't want" AI available for things like this, it is mostly because they don't know AI could help with this.

E.g. just a few days ago, I had someone show me how they painstakingly copied column by column from the exact same Notion site I mentioned into a Google sheet, without realising it was trivially automatable. Or rather: Trivially automatable to a technical user like me. But it could be trivially automatable to anyone with relatively little integration effort in the browsers.