I agree that a lot of these components are more distracting than useful. I do like the animated border around buttons, though; that would be very useful to draw the eye towards the "default" option on a page, as long as it was the only one.
This is the thing many of these shouldn't be used just willy nilly, things like the chaser around the border of a container, is awesome as a notification of a change for instance, or the button effect same thing, i'd hate a site that used these nonstop running, but something thats triggered by an event happening is much nicer.
That said, WTF is with all these "libraries" thats basically just collections of shit from codepen stacked in 1 place that they thought was cool, shit most of these don't even have cohesion from one to the other really besides... "cool motion"
