Overly smooth progress bars are like that little spinning "processing" icon: simulated and meaningless. <br><br>I really hate the spinning icon, because I've seen programs lock up, but that little icon just keeps spinning,(reply>), I call it " The blue Rinng of Crashing" cuz most of the time the programme crashes then the that icon come on,(reply>), The spinnies can actually make me sensory overload and nearly break the machine. If they last too long i abort that download or leave the room. I have legit nearly chose to snap a screen in half from sensory overload, but thankfully have enough self control not to,(reply>), That is because of incompetent programmers. The spinning is just some animation they put up. It has nothing to do with the program actually working on something. The only purpose is to fool people.,(reply>), *show,(reply>), The point of the spinning icon is to tell the user that the program is doing something that will take a little bit of time. If you don't shoe it at all and the program just freezes for 4 seconds for seemingly no reason, that is a WAY WORSE experience.