I gripe about it all the time, but it hasn't really been an issue for me, and TBH the biggest codebase that I've written outside of work (where we don't really

I gripe about it all the time, but it hasn't really been an issue for me, and TBH the biggest codebase that I've written outside of work (where we don't really use async) ... uses tokio. I think it's more a question of emphasis. If you go looking for crates for network I/O related things (esp HTTP) on the whole you'll find mostly async driven ones. And among them, you'll often find they're hardcoded for tokio, too.