I've noticed that, with longer sliders, the new tick animations mean that each tick of a slider is only really visible as it's about to hit. As ticks can be an aid to reading speed changes, I think that this could impair the readability of several ranked maps. It doesn't need to be such a drastic change that they might as well not animate, but I think that the effect could be refined somewhat. Sadly, the nature of some maps does necessitate whatever is necessary to make them more readable. I daresay that one of my own maps relies on this as well (thanks SapphireGhost ;_;).