As someone who's often struggled to find a piece of content because the only link to it was about ten pages down a list that you can only add more items to via

As someone who's often struggled to find a piece of content because the only link to it was about ten pages down a list that you can only add more items to via infinite scroll... I'd say pagination is usually the better options. At least with pagination, you can think 'okay, then it's page 10 that has the article I want'. You can then just click on page number 10. If it's infinite scroll, you either have to manually mess around with the URL (best case scenario) or just scroll through everything again (common worst case scenario). This is also while you should probably (at least in my opinion) have some form of page number, as well as a clear and somewhat quick to modify URL scheme (like page/10 instead of date=01/01/1990&before_date=01/02/1992&cat=test&session=123456789 etc).