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The Composable Architecture's fundamental unit of effect is modeled on Combine publishers because it was the simplest and most modern asynchrony tool available at the time. Now Swift has native concurrency tools, and so we want to make use of those tools in the library. But first, let's see what can go wrong if we try to naively use async/await in an existing application.