> This pattern has caused connection pool exhaustion in Node.js applications using undici (the fetch() implementation built into Node.js), and similar issues have appeared in other runtimes.

That's an inherent flaw of garbage collected languages. Requiring to explicitly close a resource feels like writing C. Otherwise you have a memory leak or resource exhaustion, because the garbage collector may or may not free the resource. Even C++ is better at this, because it does reference counting instead.