Why is there a delay for the transition of my pseudo elements?

Question

I need to animate both of the element and its pseudo element.

Then I noticed, when I hover, everything is fine. But then I stop hovering, the Home animates first and after that, the pseudo element Link starts animating.

Why it behaves like this? Is there a way to make them animate simultaneously?

Here's a simplified recreation of my problem:

a {
  color: blue;
  transition: all 1s;
  text-decoration: none;
}

a:hover {
  color: red;
  font-size: 48px;
}

a:hover::before {
  color: green;
  font-size: 32px;
}

a::before {
  content: 'Link:';
  transition: all 1s;
}

<a href="javascript: void(0)">Home</a>

I'm using MacOS with Chrome Version 83.0.4103.97 (Official Build) (64-bit)

If you can't reproduce the problem, here's a screengrab of it:

Answer 1

I also assigned the default values ​​to ::before and works fine. I think it trying to inherit the default values and it's confusing.

a {
  color: blue;
  transition: all 1s;
  text-decoration: none;
}

a:hover {
  color: red;
  font-size: 48px;
}

a::before {
  content: 'Link:';
  transition: all 1s;
  font-size: 1rem;
  color: blue;
}

a:hover::before {
  color: green;
  font-size: 32px;
}

<a href="javascript: void(0)">Home</a>