[n144q]

That's just some superficial changes that often lead to confusion and other negative consequences down the road, especially when not handled carefully.

I would much rather directly rely on Selenium's stable APIs than someone else's wrapped APIs that is opionated and could be incomplete, incorrect, outdated and potentially unmaintained someday. There are always much more resources put into Selenium than these add-ons.

If I really want, I can choose a few APIs that I actually use and wrap them within my codebase. That's more reliable than this.

[mherrmann]

You can freely mix Helium and Selenium API calls. You don't lose any of the power you are describing when you use Helium.