Use IsList(toList,fromList) instead of specialised functions

[carbolymer]

Changelog

- description: |
    Use `IsList(toList,fromList)` instead of specialised functions
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Context

That's a follow-up from #603 , where some references to concrete collections' fromList & toList were still left in the codebase.

Checklist

• Commit sequence broadly makes sense and commits have useful messages
• New tests are added if needed and existing tests are updated. See Running tests for more details
• Self-reviewed the diff