You'll only be able to use that if you are using the non-default `--noEmit` configuration, which requires the use of some other tool to strip types. Even after that change, using `tsc` to strip types will still force you to write `.js` in your imports.

That doesn’t look like an issue that’s going to be resolved any time soon. Lots of comments which read like people digging in their heels to preserve the current behavior.