> TO be fair there are lots of other things that require a response from an API before responding to the request and therefore async reduces resource usage over

> TO be fair there are lots of other things that require a response from an API before responding to the request and therefore async reduces resource usage over threads or multi-process. Agreed. However, these are rare and many people have been abusing asynchronous views instead of delegating the task to a background worker when multiple external requests are required. Showing a spinner while polling a synchronous view is dead simple to implement and more resilient against unexpected outages.