I did not know this and appreciate the insight! Will definitely store this back of mind and try and remember to use block comments when needing to explicitly return a promise.

That's not true if you just return the promise instead of using return await, right?

No. `async` on a function automatically defers it even if the return value is immediate.

> async function foo() { return "hello"; } foo().then(console.log); console.log("after")

after hello