In some way, promoting the use of "await" actually reduces the chance of an exception floating away into the ether. The "thread" joins back, both on success and

In some way, promoting the use of "await" actually reduces the chance of an exception floating away into the ether. The "thread" joins back, both on success and on failure. And because promise errors are like exceptions, it's probably not a great idea to signal commonly-occurring conditions through them (instead using sentinel values like nulls, etc); so there isn't a huge pressure to try-catch every single thing. Also, there is fundamentally nothing wrong with a promise error that never gets handled. It's an "if a tree falls in the woods" kind of thing, no? I will concur that it's not exactly beginner-friendly, though.