If by promises you mean the `some.fun(had).catch(had, function(){handle stuff here})` syntax compared to async/await, that is actually a very fair point and it

If by promises you mean the `some.fun(had).catch(had, function(){handle stuff here})` syntax compared to async/await, that is actually a very fair point and it does make two syntaxes similarly verbose. However, it is still easier to follow a ladder of conditional statements using async/await compared to escher-style stairs of callbacks inside callbacks.