to point 1:1. I don't believe that a simple animation of Sophia compensates for the great amount of time to release this update (January release) where L&P ended up breaking again the promise to speed up the updates that were getting delayed more and more with each update.
2. L&P said that there is no animation that involves Sophia in this update.
Animations need time, good animations need a lot of time. If you don't know anything about the subject, like L&P, it takes even longer. Animations are totally superfluous in a game - but we get them - so I put up with it.
to point 2:
Thanks for pointing it out. Can you please provide the statement from L&P again here. I would love to read it.