> Python is my favorite language, and I can live with the explicit loop, but explicit scheduling is ridiculous. Just run the damn coroutine

You can't "just run the damn coroutine", that's not what coroutines are.

But that does point to the mistake of Python, at least from a UX perspective: coroutines are more efficient but they're also a lot more prone to use errors, especially in dynamically typed languages. Async functions should probably just have been tasks, which is what they are in JS.