[codercotton]

Animations used to be ~2x slower, /that/ was painful. It's much better now, though I could go with another 2x speedup personally.

[bschwindHN]

Wasn't it the case that they used to prevent touch interactions until the animation finished? I remember moving to iOS from android in 2017 and being really annoyed at that, but they fixed it in like iOS 11 or 12.

[dariusj18]

They used animations as loading times, not bad UX to prevent you from staring at a blank screen, or waiting for an app to open, thinking the phone didn't register your action.