The neglected part here is latency, speed itself can be masked by progress bars/animations, but having visible lag ruins the idea of speed and users treat it as slow vs animated loading bar.

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archargelod 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Maybe it's me who's weird, but I find animations as much worse - it's basically pointless and wastes slightly more time (even when program is fast enough!).

The interface without animations feels snappier even if sometimes it takes a second to load. I disable any and all animations in software that I can - particularly in Android (via developer settings) and Linux (i3+vim vs something like KDE+VScode).

	▲	qup an hour ago \| parent [-]
		As a kid I liked the interfaces that lagged badly, but still accepted input perfectly. It felt like I was racing. Type the whole message before the screen updates? Check. I miss AOL sometimes.