I had investigated if this was possible to do but I couldn't find a way to do it myself. It's possible that pd.Timestamp might be intricately tied interally to vectorization optimizations using numpy or others. Therefore separating out just the timestamp stuff from pandas would be a lot of work.

Python is in many ways the anti-JavaScript when it comes to packaging. Where JavaScript will have a installable package that contains a single trivial function, Python packages will bundle hundreds of functions, all vaguely related to an area, with no easy way of just installing what you actually need.

My experience is that Pendulum does a good job of handling date/time data as a drop-in replacement for the standard library classes.