I've tried keeping UIPlayAnimation. actually it can work with some extra scripting,
but I want to enable another Panel after this Panel's reverse animation finished so it looks like the Panel is flipping (like LINE cookie run's friendlist panel)
it works well if I click the close_btn, but when I try to do the extra scipting, I can't acces the OnFinished so the 2nd Panel is enabled before 1st Panel animation finished (both Panels will present for about 0.3sec). so the Flipping Panel trick looks really poor.
unfortunately your code is not working.

EDIT:
For now I just disable the Panel than to use animation reverse. It looks like this. actually there's no close_btn so I use the START_btn to demonstrate the Result that I want.
Main UI Demojust a demo . assets are taken from assetstore.