Thank you for your reply, Marko. Much appreciated.
I have reactivated the animations to make the effect more obvious, particularly noticeable on pages other than the Home page.
Now, when a page is loaded, there is a brief moment where a (presumably cached) version of the page appears. Immediately following, the text disapears as the animation initiates, smoothly bringing in all the content blocks.
This behavior is different from before installing the plugin. Back then, pages loaded more like a blank canvas, and the blocks were subsequently drawn in on top of it.