graphics are choppy - animations are very slow - turn off

You didn't mention your CPU, but as long as it's as good or better than the minimum requirement of i5-6600k I would agree with you, but people with much better rigs are having issues so it's probably a matter of waiting for them to optimize the game. I have i7-11700k and 3080ti FTW3 and 32 gibs of memory and it does play ok for a while but eventually, it starts lagging and I have to restart, so there must be a memory leak or something as well. I'm hopeful they will get there as they seem very open to community feedback. Just a matter of when.