This is my experience with Keynote too: the UX appears minimalist which can make it seem like it has less features. In fact, they’re all there: just cleverly weaved into context dependent UI. And the quality of the animations really is a cut above. Particularly like that I can export the slideshow as a movie which we use for trade shows etc.
Yeah - I have exported loops for trade shows, and I did something similar in my work today.
PP does animations but the UI is so clunky, I just don’t have the patience with it, and it shows in the quality of what I produce. That’s the thing about Keynote in particular - I enjoy using it.