After the update, the NPC's play_animation_controller is not working.

It seems to have been broken all year. some people have luck with it, some don’t.

It appears to only work in specific use cases.
The responses don’t help with the specified case users are having.
One bug report had a the “Bug Reporter” profile say " Status: Closed Reason, “wont fix”.

Thats…thats just nice.