I've found testcafe [1] to be a good alternative.
It was some time ago so I may not remember correctly but I felt like cypress was not for people already fluent in javascript, a bit like jquery but pushed even further (you need to do everything the cypress way now, you can't even use variables or promises...).
We use them on my team because they make the tests more readable and keep us from having copies of the same selectors in multiple places, but you can easily use TestCafe without them.