[musingsole]

Without context, the animation applied to a basic interaction seems like it's getting in the way of User Interaction

But as you hint, in many situations a gradual change of the presentation will allow a user a lot more awareness of the presentation and it's interconnections as a whole.

With scrolling, the idea is usually you're looking at a massive block of text with some images. Why are you scrolling?

Sometimes, you may know exactly where on the page you're trying to go -- in which case lerp will interfere with the interaction.

But in most cases, your using the scroll feature to skim and find the correct place, in which case an animated scroll will serve the user better since the content will have a predictable location throughout the presentation.

[darkerside]

Also much easier on the eye, allowing you to place text and start reading it even as it's still moving