[jasondenizac]

The project I'm working on right now is about 6 months old. Promises have greatly simplified our data access layer. My argument here is mostly syntactic (not semantic, like the OP), but being able to assign promises to a variable has improved the readability of the code and the intent of the code, improving readability, testability, and flexibility. I don't claim that promises are the One True Way, but they get a lot of noise out of my way and let me focus more on what our code is doing than on how it's doing it.