"Just because you can animate everything doesn't mean you should." Material design guidelines agree with you. Animations are supposed to be meaningful and illu

"Just because you can animate everything doesn't mean you should." Material design guidelines agree with you. Animations are supposed to be meaningful and illuminate on what's happening internally rather than being superfluous flourishes. What you might really mean here is the time-honoured principle of seeing a good design somewhere and mindlessly cargo-culting it to produce a bad design somewhere else.