It's funny because in Android you can set animation speed to 0.5x or even turn them off entirely, it's an option in the developer settings. Apple would never let you do that.
I don't know how much it made sense when it was to allow blind UI navigation (could have been a "navigation" or "interactions" setting).
But nowadays with the amount of stuff in there, including permissions for password managers, animation reduction, audio EQ etc., it just makes less and less sense.