This is what's confusing me - I have no problem with the complaint that a language feature is confusing or unfriendly to beginners, but in this particular case,

This is what's confusing me - I have no problem with the complaint that a language feature is confusing or unfriendly to beginners, but in this particular case, why would somebody who doesn't know what await does even use it? What are they expecting it to do besides wait?