I basically associate material design with "slow" now, especially ever since Google has began to move all their services (flights, analytics) to material design. It's all becoming slow and annoying to use, anyone else feel the same?
Actions shouldn't wait on animations ever.
I remember seeing studies about progress bar lines can make the user perceive that progress is happening faster.
Either way, it’s a deterrent for me.
I have the feeling mostly Google employees are running around telling the world how slow their pages are.
Sometimes I feel like people lean on a lush and complex design system to draw eyes and attention away from how thin their product/data/whatever is. Welp, this is boring. Let's slap some lipstick on it.