> Apple's five-finger inward gesture are the opposite. Once you could do it and start typing but nowadays it needs to render the animation

There is no technical reason that animation should take that long.

Someone said, "good enough" and let it be visibly slow. The reasons for that could be anything, including non-performant code in dependencies, written by other people. But it just does not take much computing power by today's standards to composite code-generated animation.

Somehow, despite year after year of percentage-speed hardware improvements, there are cultural and structural reasons people ship code visibly slower than it needs to be. And faster compute appears to be irrelevant.