Hi. The default package.json comes from the Salesforce CLI’s template. You should be able to reproduce this behavior by creating a project manually via the CLI in isolation of IC, e.g.:
sf project generate -d <path> -n <name>Assuming that’s the case, you’ll want to log a bug in the CLI public issue tracker:
https://github.com/forcedotcom/cli/issues
Regards,
Scott Wells