toBeDisplayed() not respecting Webdriverio's waitForTimeout or waitForInterval

[mak941]

Unless a new options object is passed directly as an argument to the toBeDisplayed() function the test will fail when having to wait longer than the default of 2000 milliseconds. Even after setting the waitForTimeout explicitly to 60000 milliseconds inside our wdio.base.conf.ts.

This works: await expect($('android=new UiSelector().text(\"placeholder dummy text\")')).toBeDisplayed({ wait: 60000 });

Or this works:
toBeDisplayed.js

[nickvandevelden]

We are also experiencing the issue when expect-webdriverio resolves to 5.6.4.
Forcing the version to 5.6.1 via a pnpm override in the package.json works as a temporary workaround

"pnpm": {
  "overrides": {
    "expect-webdriverio": "5.6.1"
  }
}

Running pnpm install --frozen-lockfile ensures the version remains consistent in CI.

[mak941]

We are also experiencing the issue when expect-webdriverio resolves to 5.6.4. Forcing the version to 5.6.1 via a pnpm override in the package.json works as a temporary workaround

"pnpm": {
  "overrides": {
    "expect-webdriverio": "5.6.1"
  }
}

Running pnpm install --frozen-lockfile ensures the version remains consistent in CI.

I ended up doing the same thing and locking our version to 5.6.1 as well. My theory is it has to do with some of the changes done here https://github.com/webdriverio/expect-webdriverio/pull/1981/changes.

[dprevost-LMI]

I confirm that the PR did not take into account the global config done in index.ts#setDefaultOptions. Fixed in this PR!