I think this article misses a main point and that's the fact that all await does it take a function that used to be asynchronous and makes it synchronous. While yes, there are definitely use cases where that is nice, in general I think that if you want to use an await command, why are you making a call that was meant to be async? You are defeating the whole point of async calls.

Yes I know a lot of standard libraries have calls that are async and you may not really need for them to be async but I don't think that this is the case often enough that we should abandon callbacks and the like and go back to an age where all code must be synchronous. I know the author isn't saying it to that extreme necessarily, but his comparing callbacks to gotos is extreme as well.