I agree with you, I feel this way about async/await and felt similar about ES6 classes ans various other features. Perhaps one advantage is it makes the languag

I agree with you, I feel this way about async/await and felt similar about ES6 classes ans various other features. Perhaps one advantage is it makes the language "look" more appealing to beginners, almost all of whom are familiar with object-oriented programming and imperative programming. In the end, as you pointed out, these construct may work against developers in large/concurrent codebases and is an undoing of the simplicity of Javascript, one of its original strength. On the other hand we can't really say this was not coming, Javascript being a single target language with many stakeholders around it. Maybe what's needed is to stop teaching object-oriented/imperative programming as the main paradigm. But well before that happens, hopefully WebAssembly will create a evolutionary market for languages vs. a language by committee.