[joombaga]

It's good for right-way vs wrong-way demonstrations. If I just copy the text out of my terminal and say "this is how we used to do it; this is how we should do it/will do it now" and paste it in a jira ticket, not many people will take the time to read and understand. Gifs are more accessible I guess.

[nomel]

Maybe it's just me, but I can't stand having to wait to watch someone slowly type something when all I want to to is know the command or understand what some output should look like.

Similarly, I've never seen this sort of thing used professionally, just on blogs and project demos.

[hutzlibu]

It really should have a timelinecontrol ..