Clojurians Log v2

ugh, is it really still true that imported :libs (Closure libraries; in my case gRPC-web and the protobufs library, plus generated .js code from my protos) work in the build but the REPL can't find them? I've got top-level (prn (SomeProto.)) working in the real app but trying to eval the same line in fireplace.vim gives errors about Use of undeclared Var /SomeProto at line 1 <cljs repl>

I'm going off the very last line here: https://clojurescript.org/reference/repl

even odder, I can (import '[<http://proto.com|proto.com>.example SomeProto]) and then it's available in the REPL.