Discussed in #2867154: Form: Convert system functional tests to phpunit → .
\Drupal\Tests\BrowserTestBase::drupalPostForm doesn't return the HTML of the rendered page.
From a BC perspective and for ease of conversion this method should probably have the same return value as \Drupal\simpletest\WebTestBase::drupalPostForm
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