XD components and autoanimation

 So adobe XD has something newish (1.5ish years old now) called components.

As far as I can tell, it allows you to have a radio button animated without needing to make two artboards.

To animate things in XD, as far as my gf has figured out, you have to draw lines from every artboard for every possible permutation of the menu/app you're animating between. This obviously means myriad choices in an app of any complexity. Seems easier to code at this point and throw in a case/switch /if/else statement. XD doesn't allow this afaik.

Very-related-side-note: I really hate carousels. I would way rather see a bunch (9-20) of tiles and click one to see the pic I want. Give me the data and let me decide with it instead of only showing me 1+.5+.5 icons and forcing me to scroll around to see the whole friggin list.

After watching her learn this program, I completely understand why these exist. It's because designers understand basic combinatorials and factorials and don't want to animate clicking to and from every tile/icon and the main menu/other options. A carousel means that every artboard copy only has 2 more options per image in a carousel. 3 images only, and you only need to copy the carousel feature (and whole animated artboard) 2 extra times instead of n! times.

Why ascribe malice to designers just wanting to "streamline" their workflow by getting features into apps that make their work lives easier? Seems pretty logical to me and smart on them for making them work less. Now they can finish work sooner and get back to doodling while watching Big Mouth.

Cheers.