Yep, I just looked it up and it does indeed say that, at least for the 2016 version when all of these features were introduced. Fine! Carry on applying your maps to your non-Arrays!
Personally I think Array.of($nodeList).map(…) should be guaranteed to allocate once and then there’d be no more discussion here.
https://262.ecma-international.org/7.0/#sec-array.prototype....