Most teams evaluate testing frameworks the way they evaluate any other software tool: feature lists, documentation quality, community size, and ease of setup. The assumption underneath all of that is that once you pick a framework, you're done making the important decision. What follows is just implementation. That assumption is wrong, and it tends to become obviously wrong at exactly the worst time - when the team has scaled its test suite, the CI pipeline is already slow, and flakiness has started making everyone quietly ignore the results. You are not choosing a testing framework. You are choosing the limitations your team will operate within. Appium's appeal is real. Write once, run on both platforms. Use languages you already know. Bring web automation experience directly into mobile. For teams in early stages, or teams where platform specialization isn't available, this matters. The cross-platform abstraction lowers the cost of getting started. But abstraction is not free.…