The point about animation tools like these is not that the specific effects matter but rather that the ability to animate even very complex things will allow yo

The point about animation tools like these is not that the specific effects matter but rather that the ability to animate even very complex things will allow you to greatly increase the usability things that used to be more or less impossible to do because it would require too much of a user. Don't forget that the number one driver of something being intuitive is the removal of abstraction between the user and the result of their interaction. This is why the touch screen was the real paradigmshift when it came to improved usability because it removed the layer of abstraction between the user and what they wanted to manipulate. Animation fills in this role too in that it allows for transitions to happen that makes you understand what it want you to do simply by ex. keeping on element on the screen but animating everything else out or by changing shape from one state to another. The fact that you experience this transition is what's really powerful and will be part of whatever next generation of UI paradigms we will see (ex. turning data into interactive elements as an example)