I am familiar with all of the cheats, delaying evaluation, kicking the can onto the network and pretending that everything isn't just being fed into a mutex on

I am familiar with all of the cheats, delaying evaluation, kicking the can onto the network and pretending that everything isn't just being fed into a mutex on the other side. And for writing to disk, async is basically the only way to "parallelize" such operations I just think its inappropriate because, if I was looking for a parallelization library like multiprocessing, and I found this, I might waste 15 minutes or so before I figure out that this isn't parallel, it's just async. Async is okay, but it does nothing to improve performance, like what parallelization does. Async provides good UX, parallelization provides good performance. Conflating the two just muddys the water for the people who like to do high-performance-computing.