Yep, this is my biggest gripe with explicit async, all of a sudden a library that needn't be async forces me to use async (and in Rust forces me to use their as

Yep, this is my biggest gripe with explicit async, all of a sudden a library that needn't be async forces me to use async (and in Rust forces me to use their async implementation), just because the author felt like async is a nice thing to try out.