Xayah is hard to all in but easy to punish for misplays.
What that means is that her ultimate makes her difficult to assassinate. Zed Ring her means she just uses it and backs off while she receives peel, effectively canceling it.
Her ulti does not, however, get her out of shitty situations she puts herself in. If caught alone in the river / enemy jungle by people, she needs to either be ahead and capable of killing them (fine), or else blow flash / have help coming in order to save her ass; her ultimate buys her time, it does not get her out of the wrong spot.
Trist is different. Her ultimate functions in much the same way; use it to buy time / get that assassin off of you.. But then she also has W. Which means that she can effectively worm her way out of most bad situations without any assistance, or summoners, needing to be blown.
The fact that her E is so fucking easy to reset - meaning she can assassinate people / is rewarded with it for simply auto attacking people - is insult to injury.