> We all love animations.

False! I hate hate hate animations. The first thing I do on a new computer system is to disable all the animations in the user interface, and turn it into a more usable thing (for me). If I cannot do this after about 1h, I try to install a different software, or whatever it takes to remove the animations. If this is not possible, then I change my life so as not to have to see these animations. Whatever it takes, but animations are just not acceptable to me. There is no way I will ever use a GUI with animations, unless it is as the only road to disable them.