Hey, FOSS Graphics peeps — any recommendations for tools to create text-centric animations on Linux boxes?

Or, barring that, simple vector animation?

Everything I turn up searching for this is "oh, Inkscape doesn't do animations" or "spend six months learning Blender, and then it still won't have actual text tools and this how-to relies on a plugin on an abandoned Python"

I don't need a full drawbot framework; I just want to translate & morph a frame for 10 seconds.