Async-by-default from the perspective of the developer is one of the chief sins of JS, in this writing-JS-since-the-90s developer's opinion. I've seen and writt

Async-by-default from the perspective of the developer is one of the chief sins of JS, in this writing-JS-since-the-90s developer's opinion. I've seen and written so damn much code to work around async-by-default. Now most of the code I read is comically full of (justified!) awaits, so at least we got the sugar to fix it without so much fuss, but we shouldn't have to in the first place. Let async code surrender control, but don't continue executing the current logic unless the developer asks for that behavior. Await-like behavior by default. That would have been much saner, less bug-prone, more helpful, and easier to learn & reason about. It's the desired behavior at least 90% of the time, in my experience.