[coldtea]

>I myself learned to program on node.js 6 years ago, when everything required piles of callbacks (the least ergonomic form of async/await style concurrency). It's strange to see a bunch of experienced programmers saying that nobody could possibly use this style, as it is too hard, while millions of beginning programmers master it easily.

It's easy for beginners in the way GOTO spaghetti comes easy to beginners. That's all they know, after all. It however leads to bad designs and complex program flow.