I work in a text editor that relies on mouse warping heavily. It doesn’t feel wrong. The opposite is true, it makes otherwise mundane tasks fast. It takes the pointer to the newly created windows (if you have a dozen of windows, that matters), it makes it easier to locate currently selected text (again, having a dozen of windows makes it necessary) and get to the next occurrence, to shove a window together with the pointer so that you don’t lose the control over it, and more. Sometimes it even takes the cursor back after a short temporary action.

I truly miss this level of detail in the outside world. It feels as if you’re resizing a window but the mouse pointer doesn’t move.

The Lightroom example is nowhere close to that. Looks like a thoughtless optimization.