[jayd16]

Also true, but "use the decades old thread api" shouldn't count as a simplification, right?

[eklavya]

It should when you can just block left and right.

[jayd16]

Again, my point is that you often won't want to be blocking. You'll still want to run multiple async calls concurrently, and to do that the syntax is not the familiar synchronous style. You still need to use more complex apis.