Comment by fabian2k

There are real pain points with async/await, but I find the criticism there often overblown. Most of the issues go away if you go pure async, mixing older sync code with async is much more difficult though.

My experience is mostly with C#, but async/await works very well there in my experience. You do need to know some basics there to avoid problem, but that's the case for essentially every kind of concurrency. They all have footguns.