I completely agree, not only the conversion animation needs a speed up, the imp’s path finding/pick up algorithm needs some improvement as well, i often find myself having to stop for a second or two for my imp/hound to pick things up, I mean I might as well just pick them up myself… it gets pretty annoying.
Maybe imp and hound don’t need to follow the player around, because their job is just to pick things up and make looting more efficient, so why not just let them go around the map freely, or give them a bigger loot detect range.