I think anyone with a fair amount of experience in complex asynchronous programs can agree with you. But most people don't have that experience and things look very different to them. They don't understand yet why their sequential database queries do not matter, they don't understand that it's not where the complexity is and that seeking familiarity and "prettifying" simple code with syntactic sugar is not going to make it simpler or easier to understand and maintain. They will have to learn it the hard way.