Allow user interaction with UIButton during system-provided animation of UILabel - ios

Question

EDIT: Gif added for clarity
I have a UITableViewCell. The cell contains two sibling elements—a button and a label. When you click the button, new text is loaded into the label.
If the new text is short, and fits on one line (as in the top cell,) all goes well—you can tap that button pretty much as fast as you want.
But if the new text is long, and has to fill two lines or more (as in the bottom cell,) UIKit automatically animates the new text in, sliding it down from the top line. While this automatic animation is happening, UIKit also disables the button so you can't interact with it.
If you try to rapidly click through a few entries in this scenario, it just feels wrong, as the button won't react to every press.
So my question is:
Is there any way to enable interaction with the button during this animation? I can turn it off completely using UIView.setAnimationsEnabled(false), but then it doesn't look as nice.
EDIT: Since it was requested, here's the code that updates the label. The text gets updated in didSet whenever the NSManagedObject model changes.
extension MasterDataSource {
private func configure(cell: UITableViewCell, for indexPath: IndexPath) {
guard let cell = cell as? MasterCell else {
fatalError("Cell Not Returned")
}
let category = categories.object(at: indexPath)
guard let exercises = category.exercises else {
return
}
guard exercises.count > 0 else {
return
}
guard let activeExercise = category.activeExercise else {
return
}
cell.model = MasterCell.Model(with: activeExercise)
}
}
class MasterCell: UITableViewCell {
#IBOutlet private weak var exerciseLabel: UILabel!
#IBOutlet private weak var nextButton: UIButton!
struct Model {
let exercise: Exercise
init(with exercise: Exercise) {
self.exercise = exercise
}
}
var model: Model? {
didSet {
guard let model = model,
let exerciseTitle = model.exercise.title else {
return
}
exerciseLabel.text = exerciseTitle
}
}
}