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From #9030 (comment)

Another approach here might be restructuring the options as

"affectsControlFlow": "always" | "never" | "dontCare",  
"doesNotAffectControlFlow": "always" | "never" | "dontCare"  

but that seems needlessly breaking 🤷

and #9364 (comment)

Maybe change the option so that instead of a string it's an object:

{
  default: "always" | "never" | "ignore", 
  inTryCatch?: "always" | "never" | "ignore", // undefined means "same as default" 
}

And make the string options aliases for backward compatibility:

• "always" - { default: "always" }
• "in-try-catch" - { default: "never", inTryCatch: "always" }
• "never" - { default: "never" }

The new option would be { default: "ignore", inTryCatch: "always" }

In the future, there could be more conditions added. For example, someone might want to use "always" but make an exception for single-line arrow functions to make them less noisy:

/* eslint @typescript-eslint/promise-function-async: "error" */
/* eslint @typescript-eslint/return-await: ["error", { default: "always", inArrowFunction: "ignore" }] */

promise.then(async (v) => doSomethingAsync(v)) // allowed

Fail

// no changes

Pass

// no changes

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