[xphx]

> a relief when i click on a link to any site, and the page loads, and there's no animated anything whatsoever

I've recently disabled CSS animations globally in Firefox's userContent.css and my Web experience has indeed improved considerably. (Annoyingly this particular page content still jumps a little because of some deferred image loading.)

  * {
   animation: none !important;
   transition-property: none !important;
  }

This obviously does not affect scripted animations.

It would be nice if sites respected the prefers-reduced-motion browser media feature.