Changing import settings for textures, Apply must be done twice

Every time I change an import setting for an asset, I press Apply and it takes time and reimports with the change. Then I press Play, and Unity tells me I have unapplied changes, cancel or apply. So I press Apply, and it reimports *again*. This adds quite a lot of time to my workflow, especially as I am working with 8k EXR files. It took 3 hours to change the compression format for a dozen or so of the files, and then made me Apply again!

Am I doing something wrong?

Unity 2019.2.3, platform Lumin (Magic Leap)

 

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Same issue here.