Some language features aren’t aimed at toy examples, and if that’s the scope of your thinking, you won’t see the point. For example, I like how the catch block

Some language features aren’t aimed at toy examples, and if that’s the scope of your thinking, you won’t see the point. For example, I like how the catch block is just a single function call to handleErrorSomehow — which would be totally fine for an example, if it weren’t for the fact that the author makes a special note of how convenient it is that the Promise variant reduces to just .catch(handleErrorSomehow). Suuuper-realistic. I should probably admit that I also didn’t completely see the point of async/await — this was years ago in C# — until I first had a chance to use it inside a complex loop of some kind. I think it’s a good exercise to try manually desugaring such an example. It really makes you appreciate what the compiler’s doing for you in these cases.