@molly0xfff @vertana I wouldn't mind this as the default, and (what you ask) no motion for the preference as set.

TBH there's some far farrrr worse stuff out there that bothers me 20x as much. Anything that reflows while I'm reading it — because a banner reloaded at the top with different sizes — or pretty much anything that delays the moment I can begin reading, just to load data.

Those sorts of things are "does not work as designed" whereas the OP is pointing out things that are annoying when working as designed. Two separate fights.