The main issue here is the interplay between read_dispatched and the underlying methods in methods,py which call _Reader.read_elem (thus hooking back into the callback from read_dispatched). With a single set of methods.py that are all async, the functions hook into read_elem_async which can be problematic if callback is synchronous. Thus we probably need either a really clean compat layer (not sure what this would look like, another argumet? but then you just have giant if-then blocks?) or more-or-less duplciated functions

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