Is it possible to use a TypeScript runtime other than ts-node to load config?

[alexeyr-ci]

When running node -r jiti/register node_modules/.bin/cypress open --browser chrome --project spec where spec contains cypress.config.ts, I expected config to be loaded like other TypeScript files. Instead I got

Your configFile is invalid: <project path>/spec/cypress.config.ts

It threw an error when required, check the stack trace below:

TypeError [ERR_UNKNOWN_FILE_EXTENSION]: Unknown file extension ".ts" for <project path>/spec/cypress.config.ts
    at new NodeError (node:internal/errors:405:5)
    at Object.getFileProtocolModuleFormat [as file:] (node:internal/modules/esm/get_format:79:11)
    at defaultGetFormat (node:internal/modules/esm/get_format:124:36)
    at defaultLoad (node:internal/modules/esm/load:84:20)
    at nextLoad (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:163:28)
    at ESMLoader.load (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:603:26)
    at ESMLoader.moduleProvider (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:457:22)
    at new ModuleJob (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:64:26)
    at #createModuleJob (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:480:17)
    at ESMLoader.getModuleJob (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:434:34)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)

I see the documentation only mentions ts-node and ts-node is directly used in the code. Are the other runtimes not supported at all or is there some trick to it?

The idea was to delete ts-node completely, and without this I'd have to leave it in devDependencies.