People are very scared of messing up authentication and getting hacked. They would rather offload that responsibility to a third party and not think about it.
I've been working on webtool because I got tired of battling captchas in Playwright and cloud browsers.
For most tasks, it's a lot better to just let the agent work in a real, live Chrome browser that is not detected as a bot at all.
Plus it's fun to watch the agent click around and figure out how to do things.
This is the first time I've heard anyone favorably compare San Diego to SF. I've always heard that compared to SF, San Diego is dull, boring, and suburban. Care to explain why you like it more?