You conveniently ignore the fact that the guidelines you quote are specifically regarding "Individuals involved in the production or presentation of any output in News or other factual areas that regularly deal with a range of public policy issues"
lodash is great because you can import @types/lodash into your TS project and have great inferred types from things like _.uniqBy or _.omitBy; without such support, vanilla JS "equivalents" are just not useful
Football commentators are not such individuals.