As a DoL main, I will say thank you for the animation changes, they have helped.
However the main issue that cripples the pace of DoL classes is the amount of server side communication required at every step.

As someone that has varying quality of service from my ISP, I can see clearly how having anything but an ideal connection can be crippling to a DoL player. This is what I see as the main reason people can't get into DoL classes.