Hiding awaits would be against the zen. As you explained, it's a behaviour difference that might matter. The await forces you to think about it, and that's sa

Hiding awaits would be against the zen. As you explained, it's a behaviour difference that might matter. The await forces you to think about it, and that's safer. But the difference between asyncio.run(red(x)) and blue(x)... isn't. There's no difference which matters. They are just different implementations of the same behaviour. If red and blue are both the same DB query, with the only difference being red is async-style and blue sync-style, these two lines have exactly the same program behaviour: result = asyncio.run(red(x)) and result = blue(x) So the asyncio.run is just cognitive fog. It forces you to think about the type difference, but doesn't add any safety. It's almost the opposite of Python's usual duck-typing parsimony, which normally allows equivalent things to be used in place of each other without ceremony.