On the "flashing" of the enemy character portraits in combat

Was this visual update intended? At first I thought it is Ship-combat-alike and they are only flashing when they recieve a hit. Actually if you force.tap an ability for a description it flashes anyway. I am not sure if it is intended, as it happened once in the past that we had a visual flashing on the character's body and it was removed somewhat later. I could definitely live without this one as well. Actually at this point i just hope this is not wai.