chore(renovate): add playwright-core to group

[thetaPC]

Issue number: N/A

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What is the current behavior?

The Renovate playwright npm rule only matched @playwright/test and @axe-core/playwright. As a result, playwright-core was not included in the playwright group and instead fell into Renovate's default playwright-monorepo grouping, opening a separate renovate/playwright-monorepo PR alongside the main renovate/playwright PR for every Playwright release.

What is the new behavior?

• Added playwright-core to the npm rule's matchPackageNames so it groups with the other Playwright packages.
• Switched the npm rule from matchPackagePatterns to matchPackageNames since the entries are exact package names, not patterns; the explicit list is clearer for a small, stable set of dependencies.
• All Playwright-related updates (@playwright/test, @axe-core/playwright, playwright-core, and the mcr.microsoft.com/playwright Docker image) will now land in a single renovate/playwright PR.

Does this introduce a breaking change?

• Yes
• No

Other information

N/A

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