As of Node 14.8, you can use await at the top level. In previous versions (not sure for how long), it was hidden behind a flag. https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v14.8.0/

Yeah, that's also my takeaway. I've also ran into this when debugging stuff inside the Dev Tools console, but it's not really an issue when writing code.

And node.js approach to concurrency is a mountain of accumulated error.