Personally, I hate Exporter: in general, I don't want anyone stomping on my namespace, and I'm happy to fully qualify function calls and variable references (indeed, eager to, since it makes the code far clearer).

To me, import() is about bringing in the requested functionality: typically, modifying the behaviour of the package I'm loading as a result of the arguments I supply to use. Any and all creative use of import() (properly documented, of course) is fine by me.

Hugo