First: none of the exact rules are written yet. But current discussions seem to suggest "Yes, this will go away" for "./services" being resolved to anything but an absolute location ending in "/services". But importing so-called bare specifiers ("lodash") will almost definitely be supported.
> current discussions seem to suggest "Yes, this will go away" for "./services" being resolved to anything but an absolute location ending in "/services"
to be clear, this is still heavily in contention. node made a good choice to support requiring something without knowing exactly what type of thing it is, and a lot of people feel we shouldn't throw that away.