Chrome の `onMessage` リスナーで `sendResponse()` が非同期関数を待機しないのはなぜですか?

chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener((msg, sender, sendResponse) => {
  if (msg.message === "get_thumbnails") {
    processMessage(msg).then(sendResponse);
    return true; // keep the messaging channel open for sendResponse
  }
});

async function processMessage(msg) {
  console.log('Processing message', msg);
  // ... asynchronous processing code
  return 'foo';
}

if ('crbug.com/1185241') { // replace with a check for Chrome version that fixes the bug
  const {onMessage} = chrome.runtime, {addListener} = onMessage; 
  onMessage.addListener = fn => addListener.call(onMessage, (msg, sender, respond) => {
    const res = fn(msg, sender, respond);
    if (res instanceof Promise) return !!res.then(respond, console.error);
    if (res !== undefined) respond(res);
  });
}

chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener(async msg => {
  if (msg === 'foo') {
    const res = await fetch('https://foo/bar');
    const payload = await res.text();
    return {payload};
  }
});