alt Hacker NewsThere's also a ton of "fixes" which don't work.
My most annoying long-term peeve with macOS is how long it takes to switch spaces with the touchpad gesture. It takes like 1.5 seconds from the gesture starts until a window on the target space gains focus. It was bad on 60Hz laptops but it's much worse on their ProMotion laptops.
There are lots and lots of support forum threads about this issue. Almost all of them have at least one person saying it can be fixed by turning on Reduce Motion in settings. It can't. Reduce Motion turns it from a 1.5 second slide animation to a 1.5 second cross-fade animation. I don't think the people suggesting fixes there even make an attempt at understanding the issue or trying out their proposed fix.
"It takes like 1.5 seconds from the gesture starts until a window on the target space gains focus."
It's even worse than that. If you don't lift your finger from the touchpad, the gesture never gets to the target space, no matter how long you wait. E.g. if you want to scroll something in the target space with the 2-finger scroll gesture, but your fingers touch down before the space-switching animation had fully finished, then the content in the target space won't receive the scroll gesture, no matter how long you wait. Your fingers must touch down after the - very gentle and slow - animation has fully played out.