Starlord, it's one thing to say the animations are going to be replaced and completely another one to say they are getting removed.

You just assume it is going to be the case, because it makes sense, but it doesn't mean it will if you look at 1.0.

But even if you look at things like the knock back animation, or lalafell walking, it clearly is unnatural and jerky. So it's not about them adding them later, it's about present, new animations being inferior to what we already have.

Whether an animation is long or short doesn't matter. If you sacrifice aesthetics completely, the gameplay will look weird.