I get the why people want to use Promises in general but when they're used to simply wrap a standard node / browser call feels dirty to me because it changes what you expect it to return (e.g. a promise instead of whatever it normal returns).

I dunno I just don't like to give the impression I'm changing anything about how I'm accessing / using the standard library but I guess this is a bit subjective.

> versus sometimes the "pyramid of doom" callbacks can create

If you structure the code well you never run into this (callback soup is very overblown; if you find yourself in that position then someone screwed something up). But I get promises and async / await are nice :)