The irony is that the Cypress model is extremely similar to the Selenium Version 1 model. We abandoned that approach in Selenium V2 (WebDriver). Time is a flat circle.
This. Similarly how cypress does clicking with JavaScript which leads to weird bugs rather than with the debugger - similarly to old versions of selenium
I am leading a transition at work from Selenium to Cypress precisely because of our frustration with the WebDriver model. I don't consider myself an expert enough to know which approach is right, but could you elaborate on why Selenium chose to divert in V2 to what it is today?