👷 maintenance

• 24b40be8 refactor: replaces lodash (#950)
• d3b0994a refactor(test): simplifies is-same-violation unit tests
• 6181e475 Revert "fix(ci): runs release & prelease on node 22.4.x instead of 22.x to circumvent issue with 22.5 + npm 10.8.2"
• b324e7f0 Reapply "fix(ci): runs release & prelease on node 22.4.x instead of 22.x to circumvent issue with 22.5 + npm 10.8.2" (the action still pulls in 22.5.0 => still borking)
• 580fc776 chore: adds kubotak-is to contributors in package manifest