Like you, I could not care less about the page turning animation. As long as I see the next page it's fine with me. The thing that prompts me to comment is tha

Like you, I could not care less about the page turning animation. As long as I see the next page it's fine with me. The thing that prompts me to comment is that this feels like yet another place where the "artfulness" of software is getting optimized out of things. Whatever any of us thinks of the animation, it was clearly the result of clever work by the team putting out the app. The two ways of turning the page give a different feel and have a different character. I think how apps feel - and the engineering behind making them feel a certain way - often does not get its due. I think we, as an industry, should do more to celebrate people doing things "the hard way" because it's nice - and not dismiss it as "absurd."