Yeah flaky tests are a pain, not sure if cypress is any better but other things are so much worse. To deal with flakiness I wait for page loads or network responses or locators before executing actions that might depend on these things.

I think my biggest pain point is just the slow page loads and servers at my company. Also depending on third party services and integrating with them makes it impossible to have a reproducible environment, I can't self-host our salesforce integration in testing environment.