I think they mean that is syntactically/semantically looks like just a global function (even it if is not implemented as such in node).
In fact, that's what it was in web commonjs.
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Well, technically,
requiredoes follow ECMAScript specifications because it is a valid Javascript function. But, I see your point on that.Require isn't part of the ECMA specifications, it's part of CommonJS. As read here when you enable ES modules for your package.
I think they mean that is syntactically/semantically looks like just a global function (even it if is not implemented as such in node).
In fact, that's what it was in web commonjs.