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I wish UI designers understood this simple rule: only animate/add a transition if I would have been waiting for a different reason anyway.

If there's a genuine delay before you can complete showing me something, then sure, animate away. If you can render what I want to see instantly, don't make me suffer through an animation for it.

Funny related observation - 3DMark2000 displays a little transition/animation during setup before it begins copying files. On a modern SSD, the animation takes longer to complete than the actual installation. I'm sure there are plenty of other examples in modern software.

This, and too much padding/margin

Those were egregiously huge. Part of my rose tinted glasses about past UI systems was the information density. Now everything fetishes “clean” interfaces with minimal controls.

So turn them off

Why do that when there are ready to go OS options that require no config?