I love LibreOffice and rely only on it. But its Impress part is really cumbersome to use compared to PowerPoint (and I hate to admit that).

All the icons are lined up front and hard to distinguish; some bugs are really annoying (animated transitions don't work on my computers); some functionalities are tough to find : grouping/ungrouping for example.

If only I had time, I'd work to fix that...

You don't need animated transitions in presentations. This eye-candy is fun the first time you see it, but later it's just an irritating delay.

UI preferences are a matter of taste and habits. I find PowerPoint ui a hot garbage mess where I can't find anything, and LibreOffice is logical and structured to me. So my mileage obviously varies.

Of course "I" don't need it. But you see, there’s this kid of mine. In his school, you’re somehow pushed to use PowerPoint (see Microsoft schools programme)... So he’s confronted with his friends who totally abuse the visuals (and the teacher somehow likes that too). So social pressure comes in. And although the kid could use LibreOffice, he’s so dissappointed to not be able to play in the same league as his friend that I have hard times convincing him to stay out of MSFT. So no, I don’t need animated transitions but he does (and don’t start me on the fact I could explain him why transitions are a distraction, usually).

Replying “you don’t need the feature” to “the feature is clearly bugged” doesn’t make much sense.

Anyways, presentations are supposed to grab attention. Nothing grabs attention better than an animation.

If a feature is unnecessary, it does not matter if it is buggy.

As a person who regularly reviews students presentations, I tell you this: these "grabbing attention" gimmicks achieve nothing but irritate the audience. If you rely on it, you better think again, how to grab attention with your presentation contents.

Don't believe me? Ok. Check any of the presentations that had successfully pitched projects to VCs. None of them will contain any "attention grabbing" animations. Example: [1]

[1] https://medium.com/@gc/the-beginning-of-uber-7fb17e544851