Parent comment said:
> But the problems they solve are also unintuitive.
Do you consider calling a JSON API unintuitive or complex? If not, then you may be using the wrong tool. If you need nothing else, you are perfectly fine using a promise.
If you need to await extra requests, transform them, and react to other events then you need RxJS. For a simple call, you do not.
> I would imagine most people’s use case (mine certainly is) for RxJS boils down to “call a JSON API and receive a response”. That shouldn’t be a hard problem
Do you consider the following code hard to understand or are you are making requests in a more complex way?
``` this.network.get('<url>').subscribe(response => <do whatever you want here>) ```
Even if we agree to disagree that the above code snippet is hard to understand, you can just convert it to a promise:
``` const response = await lastValueFrom(this.network.get('<url>')) ```