x = example.process(42)
await x
What is the type of x? What code is executed for example.process?
If you say an asynchronous, because it is executed when there is a running event loop, then what about the following code?
asynd def f(x):
print(await x)
asyncio.run(f(example.process(42)))
If you say a synchronous, because there is no await immediately preceeding the call (we can consider await + call a single syntax construct), then your hybrid method will be incompatible with a lot of existing code.