That's the positive interpretation, but none of the discussions I've had with UI designers or managers have been about adding animation for accessibility, and t

That's the positive interpretation, but none of the discussions I've had with UI designers or managers have been about adding animation for accessibility, and the zeitgeist of the last decade has been that skeuomorphism (of which intuitive animations are a subset) is passé. So far as I can tell, all that the stakeholders want from the UI, animations included, is pizzazz.