[mmis1000]

Animate property of a svg node manually is definitely not a good idea. The overhead is really huge. The browser literally need to redo almost anything from start to render the path and hence the image. And even worse, it also need to synchronize DOM values...etc. Anything you don't care in this use case properly. Let alone the removed node need to be garbage collected, which is also a expensive operation if you even want to do it at 60fps. That is just multi horror movie combined.