Skip tooltip animations when switching between tooltips

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Provide a general summary of the feature here

I've added an enter and exit animations to my tooltips. When I hover between two tooltips that are close to each other I get a weird look and feel. (I attached a video) Ideally I would just have an enter animation when I hover over the first tooltip and an exit animation when I leave the last tooltip.

Screen.Recording.2025-11-28.at.20.19.46.mov

🤔 Expected Behavior?

I am able to define exit and enter animations for tooltips. But switching from one to the other, in a short amount of time, happens instantly i.e. there's not animation during the transition.

😯 Current Behavior

I always get an enter and exit animation for every single tooltip. When I hover from A to B the following happens.

A: Exit animation starts
B: Enter animation starts

💁 Possible Solution

I think a React Context would help. IIRC there's already a global store that "skips" the hover delay if a tooltip is already opened.

🔦 Context

I want to make this feel as smooth as possible. Other component libraries already support this: https://base-ui.com/react/components/tooltip#animating-the-tooltip.

(Note: I'm not talking about the fancy morphing, while that would be nice, I think it's more important that it's possible to skip the enter and exit animations when transitioning between tooltips)

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🕷 Tracking Issue

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