Agreed, but if you are looking for alternatives with an identical API, then it doesn't seem like a good idea anymore (at least to me).

The main theme behind the depreciation of Request is that the API is old and doesn't really fit with the rest of the node ecosystem. Any other API-compatible library is going to have those same issues. So if you are going to start something new, but want to keep an identical interface, then you might as well just use Request.