It is pants (or at least a bug)

If you change the stop playing setting from "After current slide" to "After 1 slide" which should be the same - it will probably work. Here's the rub though those "clever" MSFT coders know it's the same and as soon as you save it will revert to "After current" and stop working again.

If you know a little coding it's possible to set incremental delays quickly with a macro

Sub fixDelay()
Dim osld As Slide
Dim i As Integer
Dim sngX As Single
On Error GoTo err
Set osld = ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange(1)
' to set delays on animations 2 through 5
For i = 2 To 5 ' make sure there are 5 animations!
sngX = sngX + 2.5 ' or whatever
With osld.TimeLine.MainSequence(i).Timing
.TriggerType = msoAnimTriggerWithPrevious
.TriggerDelayTime = sngX
End With
Next i
Exit Sub
err:
MsgBox "Error - " & err.Description
End Sub

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