Simple archive is very verbose

[sharoninator]

Say I want to compress a directory. In the example, I am to do it as so:

// require modules
const fs = require('fs');
const archiver = require('archiver');

// create a file to stream archive data to.
const output = fs.createWriteStream(__dirname + '/example.zip');
const archive = archiver('zip', {
  zlib: { level: 9 } // Sets the compression level.
});

// pipe archive data to the file
archive.pipe(output);

// append files from a sub-directory and naming it `new-subdir` within the archive
archive.directory('subdir/', 'new-subdir');
archive.finalize();

This is quite verbose, just to compress a directory. Could there be a helper function employed to make this one function call? It can detect whether the thing its compressing is a file or a directory, and what the compression algorithm should be based on the filetype of the output, and for the callback functions it could just have default print messages. For the other parameters, like the compression level, it could also have default params.
For example, instead of the code above, it could look something like:

const fs = require('fs');
const archiver = require('archiver');
archiver.compress('subdir/', 'example.zip') // .zip means zip compression.

Thoughts? Is this an issue people would be interested in me submitting a PR for?