I haven't played any Pathfinder. I'm certainly not looking to get bogged down in math. I just don't find that visual bells and whistles do anything for me - they aren't fun and they slow things down. Far too often I've seen designers rush to make things pretty before they make them good, so everyone oohs and aahs for a bit and then has a game that doesn't work well.
I'm not saying that's necessarily what's happening in this specific case, but Larian seems prone to going for flash and glitz and this game has a lot of fundamentals that just don't work right now. I get that touches like the animations suggested here can add polish to a good game, but I'm very wary of going to cosmetic solutions this early in the process when they should really be trying to figure out why the bones are bad and how to fix them.
