I often find myself wanting to "replace" a route i.e not adding to the history yet have the route change animate.

In iOS I would do something like this.

[navigationController popToRootViewControllerAnimated:NO];
[navigationController pushViewController:someOtherViewController animated:YES];

Maybe this is related to issue #1953 I think I would prefer an api where we could do

replace(route, animated);
push(route, animated);