Hi Caleb Banta,
Thanks for sharing your situation on Microsoft Q&A,
Regarding your PowerPoint features, beside this Q&A Forum, I am more encourage you to post your question on this community, which is more expertise for tech fields, Category: Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Community Hub
You could keep this post on this forum, and another fellow user will communicate, update for you on this case.
Your case study is valued for the community and for developer of Microsoft. In case you need to send feedback to this feature, you can let me know so I could support by give the guidance for you on it.
Thanks for your understanding.
Best regards,