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Add motivation for static/dynamic requires

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- Cross-runtime/platform automated testing is currently impossible
- Current dynamic requires are not type safe and can have cyclical dependency errors which are not picked up on. This isn't a conceptual limitation, it is totally possible to report.
- Cross-module compilation may be wanted in the eventual future. But this pattern is common and will not be going away. There should be a way to express "requiring all children of a directory" while still having full cross-module compilation.
- "Dynamic" requires are unfriendly to tooling & the language. But they're currently _needed_ for ergonomic reasons. We should close the gap, and let static requires (which are friendly to tooling!) be more expressive,
## Design