I think that https://blessed.rs does a pretty good job of providing recommendations for things that probably can't be crammed into the standard library, but which you'll almost certainly end up needing at one point or another. I honestly like that system a lot, it makes it so that the only packages you need to worry much about are usually doing something rather specific.
The joke is that Microsoft was truthfully able to say "the individual responsible is no longer with the company", a phrase which normally implies that someone has been fired as a direct consequence of the event, without actually firing anyone. The statement was true because the individual responsible had finished their internship, and hadn't yet been brought back as a full-time employee.