Thanks for the feedback, and thank you for sharing your thoughts on setting transition properties, I was not aware of it. In general it's nice to know the reason behind following certain good practices that on first impression seem to make our work harder.

Thank you for the feedback. Happy to know!

That's right, thanks to today's frameworks and libraries, 'outsider' developers like me, without a degree on Computer Science, are able to move relatively fast in the learning curve. In a matter of months we become somewhat productive. The price to pay is that we skip a few fundamentals in the process and many times is not that we don't care, we just 'don't know what we don't know'. That is the motivation behind this article, to tell fellow beginning developers about how I encountered an issue that was a couple layers deeper than the problems caused by usual beginner's mistakes.