[masklinn]

> And I pointed out that even the simplest example you could come up with can in fact be made faster (than implementing sequentially) or simpler (than implementing with threads, which require synchronization) with an async API.

No, you pointed out that a different example could be made faster (and almost certainly at the cost of simplicity, the mention of which you carefully avoided).

> So I don't see the straw man.

That doesn't surprise me.