[Eikon]

I feel I may be an outlier here, but I love async functions (I mostly use Rust). I intuitively understand what will block and what won't, and can generally gauge the performance impact. I believe the few downsides are far outweighed by the massive benefits.

Async functions allow me to build massively parallel and concurrent systems with ease - it's beautiful.

In comparison, I'm not as fond of Go's approach to concurrency, which feels less elegant to me.

[UltraSane]

I found learning async Python to be very painful for months until I gained an intuitive mental model of the async code flow and then it all just started to "click" for me. I just think of async as parallelized waiting.