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It looks good in a conference room, and that's what the incentives of the designers optimize for.

You and I aren't the real customers of the artists that built this page, the people paying their consulting fees are.

I never minded animations in scrolljacking. I despise scrolljacking that just changes my scroll mechanics (speed up, slow down, alter acceleration) for no reason.

I suspect that the average person unfortunately responds better to (i.e. is more likely to buy after seeing) such a "fancy" presentation instead of being repulsed by many of us who are extremely used to how certain functions work and expect consistency (and usually just want to see the specs, not a sales pitch).

It's not just about how I expect the web to work, I'm looking at Google's website on Google's phone in Google's web browser and it's _janky_. It's just bad. I as a software developer feel confused and disoriented, how is Grandma supposed to read this?