Proper set-up for using import maps with Rails 7 and turbo

Question

Following an

bin/importmap pin pixabay-javascript-autocomplete

the importmap.rb has the proper entry and the header of the page does have in the script tag for the imports json block:

"pixabay-javascript-autocomplete": "https://ga.jspm.io/npm:pixabay-javascript-autocomplete@1.0.4/auto-complete.min.js",

application.js was edited with alternately

import PixabayJavascriptAutocomplete from "pixabay-javascript-autocomplete"
import Autocomplete from "pixabay-javascript-autocomplete"

Yet, on the page where this needs to be fired, nothing happens.
If the script is entered in manually in the erb file, then the script fires as expected (accompanied by a second script which is dependent on the object being invoked)

<script>
// JavaScript autoComplete v1.0.4
// https://github.com/Pixabay/JavaScript-autoComplete
[...]
</script>

<%= javascript_tag do %>
  var demo1 = new autoComplete({
      selector: '#municipal',
      minChars: 1,
      source: function(term, suggest){
          term = term.toLowerCase();
          var choices = <%= raw @municipal_names %>;
          var suggestions = [];
          for (i=0;i<choices.length;i++)
              if (~choices[i].toLowerCase().indexOf(term)) suggestions.push(choices[i]);
          suggest(suggestions);
      }
  });
<% end %>

Thus, in practice, the pinned library is not being invoked properly.
How should this be done?