Thanks for highlighting the "one element cross fades into a totally different one" example. That particular type of animation really makes an app feel ungrounde

Thanks for highlighting the "one element cross fades into a totally different one" example. That particular type of animation really makes an app feel ungrounded and unreliable to me, it gives a sense that the UI elements aren't really tied closely to the data and are just barely existing. And somehow I see it all the time across tons of apps. The improved versions where the elements actually transform into each other, sharing the same visual real estate, is so much better.