Isn't that the case though? I often have the case of some cheap-ass i2c peripheral getting locked up because of noise on the lines or what not. While this hopef

Isn't that the case though? I often have the case of some cheap-ass i2c peripheral getting locked up because of noise on the lines or what not. While this hopefully gets caught and we get the timing right to make things work in production, I pretend it's an async device that can fail and lock up at any point. It makes debugging easier.