One thing I notice with all blog articles, and HN comments, on scraping is that they always omit the actual use case, i.e., the specific website that someone is trying to scrape. Any examples tend to be so trivial as to be practically meaningless. They do not prove anything.

If authors did name websites they wanted to scrape, or show tests on actual websites, then we might see others come forward with different solutions. Some of them might beat the ones being put forward by the pre-packaged software libraries/frameworks and commercial scraping services built on them, e.g., less brittle, faster, less code, easier to repair.

We will never know.