As annoying as having to write "await" in front of everything is (probably should have a variant of $ that's synchronous), the ability to effortlessly implement parallelism is something that all other common scripting (and many "full") languages seem to lack.

Even Go, that prides itself on the good support for parallelism, fails once you actually want go get results back.

If this were paired with some way to also display the status/output of multiple commands in parallel, this would be the ultimate toolkit to write scripts.

If you look at apt, for example: Does it really have to wait for the last package to be downloaded before installing the first? Is there a good reason, on modern SSD-based computers, to not parallelize the installation of multiple packages that don't depend on each other?

Awaiting on every line is hardly parallelism.