This is an editorial change in the ECMA-262 spec, with similar changes in some proposals. See: - https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/commit/7575f74 - https://github.com/tc39/proposal-array-grouping/commit/df899eb - https://github.com/tc39/proposal-shadowrealm/commit/9eb5a12 - https://github.com/tc39/proposal-shadowrealm/commit/c81f527
The hard part of parsing them in import statements and calls was already done so this is just removing some check which threw before on assertions. And filtering the assertions based on the result of a new host hook.