Well, I think a fair presumption is that the option compared with is still distributed. Network latency and disruption is always going to be an inherent part of

Well, I think a fair presumption is that the option compared with is still distributed. Network latency and disruption is always going to be an inherent part of such. The comparison was more against rpc without async. Primarily, async exposes that the call you are dealing with goes over the network. You can no longer accidentally put a blocking rpc call in the UI thread. You can easily send multiple concurrent requests without fuzz. It has built in primitives to add timeouts on any call, even chained ones, without having to rely on complicated thread-watchdogs or checkpointing.