sass-loader has been recommending against using ~ in URLs since v11. Since then, some sass projects I use have been dropping the ~, and I can't use them without writing my own importer. Writing an importer which matches the code in this project isn't a small undertaking. As far as I'm aware, the only code in question is here:

I think it would be better to expose this behavior as an option, but I think that implementation should be straightforward as well.