If you are concerned about the animations, the second post in the Producer's Live asks specifically about it.

Quote Originally Posted by casker View Post
Will you please consider adapting the old movement animations from the 1.0 client and implement them into 2.0?

Go 'Like' it to improve it's chance of being asked to Yoshi-P. (as of this post, it only has 78 likes)

And please stop whining about it in this thread - you aren't accomplishing anything.