"Gifting was clumsy and it's now far clumsier (Animation rant)"

#PokemonGO: Animation cancels are the lifeblood of this game. Seriously.Quick catching. Skipping tutorial and flavor text (though I actually read that). Skipping the little poppy animation rewards and reading them in the journal after the fact.Why now have Niantic decided to "fix" the gifting system in ways that weren't broken?We already had to click into each friend to see which ones we could send gifts, and could not see other helpful info like who we haven't gifted in a while or who hasn't gifted us in a while.Those legitimate problems aside, we now have more. We have to sit back and:Watch while our gift sends.Watch while our friend's gift is opened.Wait for the interface to catch up to the process before we can close the current friend and move on to the next one.I timed this. Collectively, the whole process per friend is something like five extra seconds. Now, that may not seem like a lot of time, but multiply that by twenty gifts a day, 365 times a year, by millions of players.Just by this one fix, you are sapping entire collective careers' worth of man-hours. Births, interviews, weddings are missed. Divorces are created. Entire ecosystems perish from neglect, all because we were busy staring at animations that never needed to be stared at.CHANGE IT BACK, PLEASE. For the love of Arceus and all that is good and decent.The same logic applies to quick catching; KEEP IT AT ALL COSTS. Make unnecessary animations skippable and take as little time as possible, including evolution and purification.Adding arbitrary wait times is how you lose players and kill this game. Please, please, please don't mess this up. via /r/pokemongo https://ift.tt/32bkVWs