@MDTF , I took a bit of a ‘deep dive’ into how a few daws are working, STOP and CONTINUE work.
the following post (and one after it) and then associated bug report,
explain how things should work, and how in reality they work in different daws.
note: I found in different daws/sequencers how ‘continue’ transport is selected, is very different - also daws vary widely on how they need to be setup to do this.
e.g. ableton use shift+space for continue, but Cubase defaults to continue rather than reset.