So the dev team have actually gone one better, as far as I can tell.
Not only have they refrained from making the Campaign Star animation Skip button functional, despite popular demand and which I guess is what you’d normally expect from a UI feature…
… it seems they’ve actually spent time ensuring that it’s no longer possible to skip the animation by spamming the Skip button really quickly before the animation shows (as I mentioned above).
My apologies? 
#unfriendlydesign
(didn’t feel like a very nice thing for them to do, basically – and surely there are more important things to be working on?)
Edit: N.B. At least on Mobile, it seems.
I guess it could also have been unintentional 
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