It'd just be nice to have some way to speed it up! An animation isn't 100% necessary- that's something that slows progress for Project G.L.U.T.T., too. (And something I desperately tried to avoid with how I've rigged up my systems.)
It's just that without a way to speed it up, you're stuck with the base idle-digestion speed- and this can take a lot of waiting to empty out!