The old processors simply cannot run most of the new animations properly. There is just not enough power to even play things correctly. So the framework already disables most of it, but it cannot disable it all, so everything becomes VERY slow compared to any newer phone.
I mean, even on my Pixel 8, Twitter, WhatsApp, Gmail is all VERY slow compared to a pixel 10. And that is just 2 years... But it is visible when putting them side by side.
There is no magic to old hardware. They just don't perform. Our standards on what's acceptable for a good UI move on, and the older phones suffer.
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Sluggish tech like sluggish bodies, both need power, my diet gives me that.
Pixel 8, still a slave to planned obsolescence, courtesy of Alphabet's profit cycle.
All the reason to question why does it need new animations? Whats wrong with flat & animationless?
It's not about animations.. that's just the easy way to see how old technology can't keep up. The entire stack of libraries everybody uses is optimized for instructions and capabilities available in newer phones to match new behaviors expected in new android versions. A lot has changed since pixel 5a, which was launched using an outdated snapdragon 765G processor... Everything is 3x slower in those models when compared to recent midrange 7xx series.
