I'm personally surprised that people find this misleading? I mean, in so far as any programming construct is confusing until you understand it I can see it, but

I'm personally surprised that people find this misleading? I mean, in so far as any programming construct is confusing until you understand it I can see it, but fundamentally if a promise could not progress until you waited on it, it would basically become impossible to write parallel code at all -- including implementing Promise.all().