Usually, the project default is to keep state, unless you tick “restore state” in the cinematic sequencer device. Now I haven’t tried to repro in an empty project (this took 4 hours to find), but in my WIP project after playing a sequencer, all other sequencers will now restore state by default, and it caused a lot of problems that I couldn’t figure out. There is currently a workaround to set the state manually through the sequencer, but this issue still needs to be addressed for those who don’t know how to manually set the state.