In the proposed GroupEffect explainer we introduced StaggerEffect (children effects start with different delays) in addition to the traditional ParallelEffect (all children effects start together) and SequenceEffect (children effects start in turn) to GroupEffect. Notably the StaggerEffect can be achieved by modifying ParallelEffect [1]. However, introducing a separate API may still be a great idea for ergonomic reasons. In addition, most popular libraries (GSock, Angular, AnimateJS, React animated framework etc.) make the stagger effect a separate category.
[1] #4302 (comment)