[jayd16]

Personally I think the whole coloring controversy is overblown. Complaining about it is strange to me. The awaits must be there because that's what makes it cooperative and explicit not implicit and abstracted. It's like complaining about explicit memory management for garbage collection. GC is great but GC can't do things you can do explicitly. And unlike memory management, async/await is safe, just mildly verbose.

Async/await is probably the best at what it does well. You simply can't do the things that involve native thread management (among others) with implicitly scheduled green threads without locks or some other worse paradigm.