Wow, didn't even see much about how miserable using the sync_to_async and async_to_sync transformers are.

In general, the architectures developed because of the GIL, like Celery and gunicorn and stuff like that, handles most of the problems we run into that async/await solves with slightly better horizontal scaling IMO. The problem with a lot of async code is that it tends not to think beyond the single machine that's running it, and by the time you do, you need to rearchitect things to scale better horizontally anyway.

For most Python applications, especially with web development, just start with something like Celery and you're probably fine.

Not to mention sync_to_async and async_to_sync are also part of a library, asgiref that the Django developers made to wrap a thread pool runtime!