I write a lot of short JS files that aren't part of a big cohesive backend, and little things like top-level await make the code somewhat easier to read. Yes, you can just do an async IIFE, but that's just another thing for the eye to parse and feels quite vestigial.
EDIT: And since I can't respond to your other comment, I'll ask this here; what do you consider great and important about Deno that doesn't fall under the bullet-points I listed? I'm simply curious.
Edit: just realized I gave no example.. an example would be a dep that has gone missing and there is no backup for it. Deno sort of handles this but all we have actually added is no centralized way to describe dependence. So if you dynamically import a package via its package manager you also need to write some code to ensure it even exists. how is that better?
Though I admit it's not that fun for me to come in here to poopoo Deno.
