Okay, but that's not what we were talking about. leaxoy asked for a solution, I gave them one.
That is incorrect. The await!(foo) syntax was originally experimented with in 2017.
Then in June 2018 it was officially added to nightly. That was over a year ago.
During this time, it has been used in many projects, including some very big projects. It has received extensive real world experience.
And the discussions about the .await syntax have been happening even before it was implemented on nightly, with its peak culminating in January 2019 (over 4 months ago).
This was not some quick rushed decision like you claim. It is the culmination of an incredible amount of time, thought, and hard work.
If you are worried about a lack of experience with .await, then please go to this thread and share your experience (as others have already done). But you need to do it before .await reaches beta (in about 5 weeks).
That's their choice. But I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to leaxoy, who clearly prefers prefix.