• BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Software engineer and can confirm this is mostly the case. Adding a spinner or cute animation to placate users is way easier than solving fundamental issues. There are definitely teams out there that absolutely care about performance but mostly in large scale scenarios where an extra 10ms per record adds up to 3 extra hours to finish a batch.