connect-roles | Provides dynamic roles based authorisation for node.js | Authentication library

I have this code in TS to create an instance of ConnectRoles Middleware in Express:

let user = new ConnectRoles(config);

this is what the middleware expects to be able to initialize, a simple call to a constructor, however after transpiling, the resulting javascript code looks like this:

let user = new connect_roles_1.default(config);

I am importing this class in TS using:

import ConnectRoles from "connect-roles";

which translates to:

const connect_roles_1 = require("connect-roles");

in JS, is it possible that the way in which I am instantiating/importing the class may be the issue here? I can remove manually the "default" method that is causing errors in the code in the JS, but this defeats the purpose of using a transpiler, specially if things like this start happening more often.

One more thing, this is my tsconfig.json: