This is honestly the main reason I prefer Playwright to Cypress. Playwright leans heavily into using POs, while for some reason Cypress doesn't.

So in almost every project the Cypress tests are a procedural mess, while the Playwright tests are mostly well structured.

I know that Cypress has other patterns for dealing with this but they never seem to get applied.

I remember, for a while Cypress had in its documentations actually a warning about POs and recommended not to use them. I got curious as to why (because I am a big fan of POs) and dug deeper - I think at some point on a sales slide I found the reason "because POs have internal state". I started then to write my POs without any internal state (which you don't need with Typescripts property getters) and have luckily scaled my app with dozens os POs and hundred of tests. Later they removed that recommendation and seem to accept that people like POs.