async function - await not waiting for promise

Question

I\'m trying to learn async-await. In this code -

const myFun = () => {
    let state = false;

    setTimeout(() => {state = true}, 2000);

    return         


        

Answer 1

There is no point to async and await when this is the actual case:

Promise.resolve(3).then(console.log); console.log(4);
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In other words, since the then() forks and runs slower than the subsequent statements (even for a resolved Promise) then we need to put the subsequent statements inside the then, like:

Promise.resolve(3).then(_ => { console.log(_); console.log(4); });
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And since that is true then why bother to await. So Im yet to see why async and await even exist.