This defeats the point of a loading bar: it’s supposted to give an estimate of progress, not fill up at a rate entirely unrelated to actual loading!
I'd say it's actually fulfilling the real point of a loading bar: to keep the user pacified through some period of waiting that you couldn't engineer away.
I'd say it's actually fulfilling the real point of a loading bar: to keep the user pacified through some period of waiting that you couldn't engineer away.