[Azsy]

Async await at the language level isn't a scam. Its an attempt to build an alternative to statemachines( large switch statements) and nested callbacks.

It just so happened that we were trying to break 100k connections on a single machine at the same time, which requires you to avoid thread switching. Something which an async executor is also doing.

Those two goals got combined into to "the great next thing that's better in every way" when in reality, 99% will never hit that bottleneck, and the people who write good async code could write it in either of the two other forms as well.