> There's one thing that gather() does that TaskGroup doesn't: it gives us the return values from the tasks.

That's easy to do with task groups too:

  async with TaskGroup() as g:
      r1 = g.create_task(coro1())
      r2 = g.create_task(coro2())

  print(r1.result())

  # or
  print(await r2)  # I *think* this should work