How to Animate Objects in After Effects?

If you're using After Effects to animate an object, essentially you create a single shape and then define the start and end location. And so it forces you to have the same structure. So if for some reason you go from something that's straight to something curvy, you can make it happen. But it requires being very careful in the design process,. which can be a difficult and be like, it's hard to tell designers, like, oh, please count the number of curves you're using"