Back to Jonathan002's original question about
"... what version supports the new ES6 import statements?"
based on the article by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer, there is a plan to have it supported by default (without the experimental command line flag) in Node.js 10.x LTS. According to node.js's release plan as it is on 3/29, 2018, it's likely to become available after Apr 2018, while LTS of it will begin on October 2018.
