Browserstack with Playwright not logging all test runs / restarting browser

Question

I'm writing Playwright tests integrated with the Browserstack Automate dashboard. I have encountered a situation where if run e.g. 5 tests in a file, they will all run locally in Playwright and all results will be displayed in terminal, but the Browserstack Dashboard will always only be updated with results of 2 tests (the default number of workers for each test run is 2).

However, if I manually open (const browser = await chromium.launch(); const page = await browser.newPage();) and close the browser in each test, the Browserstack dashboard correctly logs all test runs.

This works:

test('test1', async ({ }) => {
  test.setTimeout(240000)
  const browser = await chromium.launch();
  const page = await browser.newPage();
  try {
    //test code here
    await page.evaluate(_ => {}, `browserstack_executor: ${JSON.stringify({action: 'setSessionStatus',arguments: {name: '', status: 'passed',reason: ''}})}`);
  } catch (e) {
    console.log(e);
    await page.evaluate(_ => {}, `browserstack_executor: ${JSON.stringify({action: 'setSessionStatus',arguments: {name: '', status: 'failed',reason: ''}})}`);

  }  
  browser.close()

});

....

Given that opening and closing the browser for each individual test seems to make Browserstack log them correctly, I'm trying to write a beforeEach and afterEach hook to do this. However, this doesn't work:

test.beforeEach(async ({  }) => {
    const browser = await chromium.launch();
    const page = await browser.newPage();

    await page.goto(`${url}`);
  });

test('test1', async ({ page }) => {
  test.setTimeout(240000)
  try {
    //test code here
    await page.evaluate(_ => {}, `browserstack_executor: ${JSON.stringify({action: 'setSessionStatus',arguments: {name: '', status: 'passed',reason: ''}})}`);
  } catch (e) {
    console.log(e);
    await page.evaluate(_ => {}, `browserstack_executor: ${JSON.stringify({action: 'setSessionStatus',arguments: {name: '', status: 'failed',reason: ''}})}`);

  }  


});

....

test.afterEach(async ({ browser }) => {
    browser.close()
  });

The before/afterEach hooks keep resulting in error messages about the browser being abruptly closed. Is there a better way to open/close browsers for each test? I know that other testing frameworks have a config setting for restarting the browser. Or maybe there is another way to make the test results appear in the Browserstack Automate dashboard?