Animations should never cause delays that the user wouldn’t encounter otherwise. If an app legitimately takes 0.2 seconds to launch and animation makes it feel

Animations should never cause delays that the user wouldn’t encounter otherwise. If an app legitimately takes 0.2 seconds to launch and animation makes it feel nicer, maybe fine. If however the OS is arbitrarily preventing me from interacting with the home screen until animation is done, someone should be fired.