I've been doing cooperative multitasking using dataflow for a couple of decades; your terms are fuzzy enough that you're criticizing the problems of particular

I've been doing cooperative multitasking using dataflow for a couple of decades; your terms are fuzzy enough that you're criticizing the problems of particular implementations and not fundamental flaws in the concepts. As an example of cooperative multitasking with dataflow, consider single-process nginx. Events are delivered using epoll; nginx has an event loop that does work on the next task that has data ready (or a timer event.) This is called the Reactor Pattern in the article.