Why are async functions async if they're synchronous?

[7z99 (cody)]

It is because the functions are asynchronous internally according to this:

Add deprecated method names for Async methods without async in them

It’s only called Async because internally it’s asynchronous, yet the behaviour on our side (where the API is exposed and should reflect) is synchronous and therefore shouldn’t have the Async prefix. :X You’d think because it’s the lua-side of the API, it would better reflect the Lua side. Telling us it’s asynchronous on the C-side isn’t any help (why do we need to know that?), and is just confusing with the synchronous behaviour on the lua side.

In my opinion, you’d think the functions would be named according to how they behave in lua but it’s probably a naming convention that’s already too widely used to switch back from anyway.