> The animation isn't making the user think the app is faster... I disagree. The right hand animation, sure, but if I saw the middle animation, I don't think I

> The animation isn't making the user think the app is faster... I disagree. The right hand animation, sure, but if I saw the middle animation, I don't think I'd register the latency at all. In fact I think I might misinterpret and get irritated that my time was being wasted with an unnecessary animation. Not necessarily better, but I would have been distracted from the load time.