If you open the timer app on a Xiaomi phone, you can click on a recent time to set the timer. Here I click on “19:00” and get 13 minutes. Why? Because if you click “go” before their gee-whiz animation is finished, you get whatever time happened to be on the dial at the time you pressed the button. Like, all they had to do was just have the button set the timer. And God forbid you just want to type a number. Nope. You have to spin a dial. It’s literally easier to do this right, but they chose to make it suck because it has to look cool.
Oh it’s the same issue that google’s alarm or clock or whatever had. Because the time select dial had to actually move to the position you clicked it could do the same as here and select whatever it was on when you clicked okay.
Separating animations from the actual selector is just too hard I guess.