Both Chest and Barrel can be opened and closed.
The issue is that only Barrel is implementing the "open" tag.
In order to play the chest open/close animation it requires modifying the server and sending packets (such as using Bukkit API + ProtocolLib).
This is not friendly with datapack developers.
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