That is a very good take on the UI.
Makes me feel nostalgic about the Apple vs Android fight of the 2012s. Back at that time, I taught students in App programming for Android. And while the Android architecture was designed to create fluid feedback between the Application and the user, the adversary Apple just focused on UI Feeling. In case of Network lag or Application problems, they would simply roll-back/freeze and reverse after a second.
I thought Google/Android was on the better path, 4 years later I switched to Apple myself, particularly because of the much better UI FEELING while using the phone (and the metal/glass case, I hate plastic phones).
It's the same here, the devs have taken over and want to have the Application/Data Layer on pair with the UI, bbbbuuuuuuuuuut the user wants to have a swift and good UX.
I'll leave all judgement aside, it should be obvious what path I'd rather like to see taken.