@dhalbert, it's probably better to file a new issue if you want changes to gather(). Although I suppose that if we want to deemphasize it, we shouldn't be adding new features to it. My own new feature idea would be to have it wait for all tasks and then if there are any exceptions, raise an ExceptionGroup. That (like any new gather() behaviors) would require a new keyword-only flag to gather(). If we're going to deemphasize it I might not bother though.

There's one thing that gather() does that TaskGroup doesn't: it gives us the return values from the tasks. The question is whether that's useful. If it is maybe we should *not* deepmhasize gather() quite as much and then adding new features would be okay.