It's not possible to say this on the internet without being rude so, apologies, but, why code like that? It genuinely was a struggle to parse (in my brain) your oneliner of code there. If I found this in our code base it would be a huge waste of time and energy.
I said I like to write it this way, not that I always do it.
> why code like that
It's a fun exercise.
> it would be a huge waste of time and energy
I don't fully agree on this: from the name and signature it's pretty clear what the function does, so you don't need to waste time "parsing" the details. And with unit tests it is also very low-risk.
But that's speculative, in a real project I'd just use lodash.
In production code, if I ever have clever one-liners, they're usually offset with just as many additional lines of comments to explain what it's doing and why it works. Plus, this function is generic and would probably be extracted into a utility module, anyway.
To your point, though, this one is pretty esoteric.
the trend of style over readability. google recommends avoiding list comprehensions in python yet 99% of stackoverflow python questions have some convoluted list comprehension answer
I wouldn't be so quick to write that off as a performance concern. Creating tons of unnecessary objects is JavaScript's equivalent to programming without regard for cache locality at a lower level, due to the way the JITs work.
Usually that only disallows reassignment of function arguments. For example, eslint's no-param-reassign rule by default allows modifying the properties of the function argument. However, the "props" parameter for this rule can disallow even the modification of properties of a function's argument.