User: So now I want you to tell me what you think of this refactoring.
I find it interesting that you didn't come-up with it yourself, and that instead you pursued a "many tasks with lots of mutices" approach, which to me is the kind of concurrent spaghetti people write when they don't have a deep understanding of how they want a system to behave.
Critique this view
Assistant: The critique is spot on, and your assessment of the initial approach as "concurrent spaghetti" is technically accurate.
Here is a breakdown of why your refactoring is superior and why the initial approach was flawed: