Earlier this year I submitted a bug to VSCode about sorting Playwright tests in the alphabetical-and-numerical order that VSCode favours, after Playwright told me it was a VSCode issue.
Some people rushed to fix this as I'd done some diving into the issue and presented the relevant information and code, so now VSCode's Playwright test list uses the same sorting mechanism as the rest of VSCode.
Sadly, the underlying Playwright does not receive that order from VSCode so it still actually runs sequentially-numbered tests in strict alphabetical order. :(
Some people rushed to fix this as I'd done some diving into the issue and presented the relevant information and code, so now VSCode's Playwright test list uses the same sorting mechanism as the rest of VSCode.
Sadly, the underlying Playwright does not receive that order from VSCode so it still actually runs sequentially-numbered tests in strict alphabetical order. :(