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It desugars that way beacause of the nested structure of monadic sequencing, not because of threads or IO. We can distill the real argument down to "JavaScript must use nested callbacks for async. Haskell doesn't."

That's a very fair point. I actually think in small doses the desugared Haskell looks better, but it gets ugly really quickly.

Except its not really misleading. The code when you return later you can glance and read is better than that which looks like a landscape rotated counterclockwise.