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"resist the urge to do a hybrid slide, and if at all possible make presentation slides at front, reference/supplementary slides at back."

This has been my SOP for years, but its amazing how resistant some folks are to it (like $NUMBER_OF_SLIDES is the sole measure of quality...with "more slides are bad, mmmkay" being the default). I fought with my last boss on this endlessly, as I would rather have many slides with small digestible chunks of info that I could scaffold my presentations through at a brisk clip, and they preferred as few slides as possible, with dense text and charts, that they would elaborate on in long exposition.

I always got better positive feedback, to no avail. My decks would be 'edited' into a compacted slop-fest. Drove me batty.