Why we need to use async and await to access most of Ion Modal function?

We can use ModalController to create a modal view. However if we want to use some of the functions provided such as: onDidDismiss(), why do we have to use ‘async’ and ‘await’ on the modal?
Can someone explain about this?

You don’t (and I would argue that you shouldn’t). You can treat the return value of onDidDismiss() as an ordinary Promise:

modal.onDidDismiss().then(result => {
  ...
});