Looks like uWrap only handles latin characters and doesn't deal with things like soft hyphens or emoji correction, plus uWrap only handles white-space: pre-line while Pretext doesn't handle pre-line but does handle both normal and pre-wrap.
That is to say, I wouldn't be so quick to call a library that only handles latin characters comparable to one that handles all this breath of things, and I also wouldn't be so quick to blame the performance delta on the assumption of greenfield AI-generated code.