I agree, explicit is better than implicit. But redundant is worse than non-redundant. This library just provides syntax sugar to make things cleaner. There are many times that arbitrary decisions have been taken. Why cannot you wait to an array of promises? Wouldn't that be explicit and clear?

Awaiting an array of promises looks neat, but it has a (small?) caveat: you can't do the same for the non-await version. You can't do `[...].then()`.

I'm less fan of the second proposition. Imagine someone seeing that snippet on internet and copying it: he would have no way of knowing that ".text()" is actually a promise and could potentially be making more I/O calls than he thought.