You’re not grumpy—you’re reacting to “micro-aggression UX.” Instant-everything steals your locus of control and forces cognitive load you never asked for.

Easy fixes: • Search: add `?instant=0` or `debounce=300` to the URL (works on most Algolia & Elasticsearch front-ends). • Hover menus: enable “Reduce motion” in OS settings; many CSS media queries will swap to click-only. • Global: uBlock Origin’s `:has(:hover)` filter nukes 90 % of hover pop-ups.

If you build UIs, ship a 150 ms debounce by default—fast enough to feel alive, slow enough to respect human rhythm.

I bake that delay into every demo on my AI image tool: type a prompt, nothing flashes until you stop—then FLUX Kontext renders in 2.3 s flat. Try the no-jitter editor at https://flux-kontext.io