> On the contrary, pagination makes it impossible to keep your place in the list if it changes between page loads.

Well, that's obviously false. There are two styles of pagination:

    https://yourblog.zox/archives?page=4

    https://yourblog.zox/archives?before=2019-06-03&count=10

That second style will never change (unless you insert entries into the past). The first style will change. But it hardly makes it impossible to keep your place in the list; if you come back three years later, you'll find that that link goes to a random location, but if you come back next week, that link is going to go to a place that is very close to the place you left off, requiring minimal adjustment to find your place again.