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OK so what about this scenario:

Player 1 23 Dex bonus +3
Player 2 15 Dex bonus +2
Enemy 1 15 Dex bonus +1
Enemy 2 14 Dex bonus +4

Player 1 wants to act after player 2, again not know the enemy's initiative. So as per the Delay action, you can

"By choosing to delay, you take no action and then act normally on whatever initiative count you decide to act. When you delay, you voluntarily reduce your own initiative result for the rest of the combat. When your new, lower initiative count comes up later in the same round, you can act normally. You can specify this new initiative result or just wait until some time later in the round and act then, thus fixing your new initiative count at that point."

So if player 1 delays to initiative count 15 at which point we compare dex and he still goes before player 2 and both enemies. If however he wants to act after player 2 do they have to lower his initiative count to 14 or do they slip in between enemy 1 and enemy 2.

After a recent session an interesting rules point came up about delay.
For simplicity sake I have reduced the player numbers just to the interested parties.

In the initiative count we have

Player 1 23 Dex bouns +2
Player 2 15 Dex bouns +3
Enemy 1 15 Dex bouns +1
Enemy 2 15 Dex bouns +1

So, player 1 wants to delay until player 2 takes their action and then act.
Player 2 acts, so player 1 says I would like to act now, not knowing when the enemy is about to act, but DM tells player 2 they act on initiative 14.

As far as I can tell according to the rules, “By choosing to delay, you take no action and then act normally on whatever initiative count you decide to act.”

So player 1 should act on initiative count 15 after player 2 and act before enemy 1 and 2 as their initiative bonus is greater.

Am I reading this right?