Yes, new.target was cited as a precedent for this decision. Even though new.target itself was such an ugly hack that the spec was specifically coded for new.tar

Yes, new.target was cited as a precedent for this decision. Even though new.target itself was such an ugly hack that the spec was specifically coded for new.target alone. So import is: - a keyword that can only exist at top level at the top of the file - except when it looks like a function, but it's not a function and doesn't behave like one - and it's also apparently and object because it has what looks like a property on it IIRC there was a proposal for an Import (or was it System?) that would take care of things like import.meta etc., but it was deemed to complex. Instead we have import()