But the async/await/Promises only make the code look synchronous because it actually makes the code synchronous. The await literally blocks the current thread, it's nice that the code is executed in a thread scheduler but I'm still blocking the current thread. How this was accepted as a big win is not clear to me. If you want to make it asynchronous you still have to write .Then(()=> {}) which is a nested function. So we won nothing on that front. It's literally just about taking tiny pieces of code out and running them in a different thread... while the current thread is blocked anyway. So all this hurrah for almost nothing gained. In C# we already had a task scheduler ala Task.Run(()=>{}). Async instead of Task.Run() seems like such a microsopic win in exchange for an enormous amount of complexity.