I don't really get why people need to use async methods (regardless if they are promises or something else) when in fact they are implementing a blocking workflow where one method call needs the results of a preceding method call. It would be much easier to just use synchronized/blocking functions because then you get the desired behaviour for free and need not jump through hoops like promises chaining.
I get that there are APIs that are only available in an async fashion these days and I was forced to bolt on an blocking workflow on an async API myself and didn't particularly enjoy it.
Not sure I understand your complaint. Don't promises ultimately wait upon external events, like a connection receiving data or a timeout being triggered? Given that Javascript is single threaded it is the only way of not blocking the event loop.
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