Consumers want electronic starters on their chainsaws – but they're less reliable, prone to error, more expensive, etc... in the end, us engineers gotta make products that people will buy.

Do people really want that stuff out do they just think they want it?

Do people think they want it, or do developers and designers think the people want it?!

I'm a developer and I definitely want that stuff some of the time. On platforms that can handle it, absolutely. I love all the animations in macOS and I always have. GNOME and Windows are nice but they don't feel like home in the same way, they don't have sophisticated and fluid animations.

They need to be performant and they need to improve the usability of the system, not reduce it. That's the criteria. It's often not achievable with the web, though people try.

I also love the animations in macOS, but fwiw each version of iOS feels like a step backwards for usability to me.

If you have trouble selling a product without that stuff, does it make a difference?

Not sure since when undiscoverable command line interfaces are simple. Simple to make, yes, but not easy to use compared to the most basic visual solution where its creator put a lot of thought.

>UI/UX researchers

Is that with respect to Web Page / Tech?

Because people expect different things for Apps and WebPages.

Great question, largely yes web page / tech but I used to work on a Qt desktop app and it was the same story there. Luckily Qt made animations fairly easy and performant.