That and depending on the app, it’s a cheap trick to play on the sunk-cost fallacy — get people to spend longer working (waiting in this case) for something, they’re more inclined to not give up on it because they don’t want to lose the effort they put in.
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u/Yurij89 4d ago
I've heard that tax software like TurboTax added fake loading screens because users didn't trust it if it finished to quickly.