Optimization trick.
The client shared this!

Even outside of this context, less lines of code !== more efficiency.

TFW client knows shit :D

Node devs would kill for this economy of scale

Do the 12 libs do a better job?
Is that better worth the extra maintenance?

Less code including deps != More optimal.

Last year I did something similar and I think most would do the same (not one line of code but 20 or so). Replaced a custom logging class with a lib that actually adheres to the PHP PSR logging standard. One of the deps is the interface from that standards institution.
As it logs async the performance actually increased