Please bring back deprecated "Reveal" animation (in code)

The “Reveal” animation still exists as a basic animation, but will only animate one time. I need to reuse this animation every time I hover over an object, but I’m not finding a way to force it to animate - and the code has made it deprecated, so I can’t use it as a show() effect any more.
A way around this issue would also work! For example, right now the “animate once” toggle animates every time the page is reloaded or just the first time the page is loaded - however, there could be a third option, such as “always animate” that animates the object every time it is shown.
Either the “reveal” effect (in code) or a way to force animation on show() without needing to specify the effect option would be very helpful!