> Moreover, I never ever ever want to jump to page 317 right from the beginning. There’s absolutely no use case out there, where I search for something, and the

> Moreover, I never ever ever want to jump to page 317 right from the beginning. There’s absolutely no use case out there, where I search for something, and then I say, hey, I believe my search result will be item #3175 in the current sort order. There is a pretty big exception to this: when the search is so bad that it never returns proper results or filters poorly. If the search algorithm always starts in the same dumb way, pagination can let you “skip ahead” and find better results. I know this is the XKCD workflow thing, but when a site implements search terribly but at least has some semblance of working pagination with jump tools, I can at least still get okay results.