I think what you are arguing (which I agree with) is that the Node ecosystem would benefit from a set of "core" libraries that could just be installed as a separate NPM module, that are blessed by the Node core maintainers, but aren't part of a specific Node version.
Deno basically does this with the Deno standard library, e.g. https://deno.land/std@0.93.0, and I agree that I think it's the right approach.
There is nothing "special" about wrapping setTimeout as a Promise, indeed pretty much everyone has done it at some point, so would be nice if there was a single, blessed standard version that I could just add as @node/standard in my package.json as long as I was on any supported Node version.
