There are other ways to deal with this besides async. It would have been fine if they had added async but you can’t just remove the synchronous functions and ex

There are other ways to deal with this besides async. It would have been fine if they had added async but you can’t just remove the synchronous functions and expect people to port existing apps with perfectly fine multithreaded code to async. This would be a lot of work without any payoff. Whatever their reasoning was it was just plain dumb, heavy handed and unrealistic.