Library and Home showed grey squares that filled in unevenly, which reads as
broken rather than as loading. One shared QbzSkeleton — a card shape and a row
shape — now stands in while data is on its way, and each placeholder clears as
its own item arrives rather than all at once, so loading reads as progressive.
The animation is the part that could have undone the point of this track, so it
is capped: a bounded number of placeholders breathe, and the timer stops when
the view is not visible or the window is minimized. Not on focus loss — a
tiling desktop keeps windows visible and unfocused, which is the rule already
established for the ambient field.
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