UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.81 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1.Type in the Omnibox a URL of a search site, e.g. wikipedia.org
2. Press tab to enter Search mode in the Omnibox
3. Notice animated suggestion "<Type search term>"

What is the expected behavior?
The "<Type search term>" placeholder text should animate subtly, perhaps fading in while animating to the left from a mere 200px to the right of where it ends up. This would feel quick with short-distance motion.

What went wrong?
It's rarely good to animate an item over large distances, e.g. the > 2100px across the width of the Ominbox suggestions window on my full screen browser.  The animation seems to take over 500ms which is a long time to pause when you're in a flow. The problem is that the animation is so drastic that I can't NOT pause, like a video game it always arrests my attention. Chrome's UX is very refined, so this sticks out as a nuance that didn't get the proper UXD attention.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 69.0.3497.81  Channel: stable
OS Version: OS X 10.13.6
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