I'm having a hard time understanding async await keyword. For a method to have an asynchronous method called inside of it and for that method to be "awaited" it seems to me that it defeats the purpose of asynchronous programming...

From what I understand, when you "await" an asynchronous method, the program waits for that method to complete before moving on. If this is true, then what is the point of making that method asynchronous in the first place?