refactor: more changes to use async methods #3649

Job	Run time
Prepare version string	5s
Build / Build macOS (Intel)	6m 19s
Build / Build Linux	3m 14s
Build / Build Windows ARM64	4m 9s
Build / Build macOS (Apple Silicon)	2m 11s
Build / Build Linux (arm64)	3m 25s
Build / Build Windows x64	3m 43s
Package / Package Windows (win-arm64)	27s
Package / Package Windows (win-x64)	23s
Package / Package macOS (osx-arm64)	22s
Package / Package Linux (linux-arm64)	59s
Package / Package Linux (linux-x64)	1m 1s
Package / Package macOS (osx-x64)	17s
	26m 35s

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