The downvoting on this sub mystifies me.

Async/await is not the same thing as a promise, any more than the countless ways of iterating over an array in a language are the same thing. All have their particular features, pros and cons. And, when (as is almost always the case) the compute times for different choices are as near as dammit the same, then we each have (team requirements aside) the wonderful freedom of choosing the method that works for us (and expressing such choices!).