Problem

It would be useful if matplotlib had an animation class pre-programed with widgets, similar to the one on presented on the matplotlib website:
https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/animation/simple_anim.html#sphx-glr-gallery-animation-simple-anim-py

Nearly all the animations I'm working on would benefit greatly from the ability to pause/rewind/step forward/etc. as shown in the example - it was sad to see these features couldn't be implemented using the example code.
It would be possible to recreate these widgets, but the process is finicky and quite involved, definitely not something the average user could easily step into.

A pre-built animation with widgets class could take a lot of the hassle out of implementing some of these features.
Baring that, having an example that recreated the website widgets in python would also save a lot of troubleshooting.