So we've had a race condition in our test initialization that has been stopping us from upgrading past cypress 9 for months. We have a helper function called

setupGameAsP0()

which is a regular js function that calls several custom cypress commands including creating multiple accounts and making a game. Someone tried wrapping the beginning of the function in

cy.then()

and it suddenly works, to my bewilderment. Can anyone help me make sense of this? We now have

cy.then(() => { // we added this wrapping cy.then()
    if (!alreadyAuthenticated) {
      cy.wipeDatabase();
      cy.visit('/');
      cy.signupPlayer(username, validPassword);
    }
  });

and suddenly the tests pass in CI