The author is broadly arguing against this style: 1 2 3 ... 315 316 317 318 319 ... 50193 50194 That style is in fact extremely useful if you want to jump mul

The author is broadly arguing against this style: 1 2 3 ... 315 316 317 318 319 ... 50193 50194 That style is in fact extremely useful if you want to jump multiple pages ahead faster, or work backwards faster, rather than one at a time. And I'd argue that this: < Prev | 1 | 315 316 317 | 50194 | Next > with 3 or 5 results in the center, is the ideal form of that (can optionally drop the prev / next with strong left / right arrowing to compact it further). The example the author gives is intentionally bloated to amplify their point. If I'm on page 1, and want to get to page 13, having multiple numbers in the middle accelerates that process. I can skip to 13 much faster by jumping results rather than going one after another. This is a practical use case and it works well in reverse by enabling you to jump to the end of the results (page 50194) and work backwards quickly through multi-page jumping from the last result, which is great for many types of time-marked content.