This is an interesting psychological effect. Sure, it wastes time but people seem to expect/need it in order to trust a system. There has been some research on

This is an interesting psychological effect. Sure, it wastes time but people seem to expect/need it in order to trust a system. There has been some research on effectively using wait time, such as doing small educational tasks while something loads, that I wonder if they could be integrated for a win-win. For example: Wait-Learning: Leveraging Wait Time for Second Language Education (https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2702267 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2702267)