[zozbot234]

> Slow animations are a way to hide latency, they are essentially loading screens.

Except that most of the time there really isn't any latency to be hidden, the action becomes effectively instant once you remove the animation. Starting a new app (or switching to an app that was evicted from memory) is the main exception and that's quite rare.

[washadjeffmad]

Sometimes it's a decision made for consistency of expectation.