> I've seen infinite scrolling that implements paging as well
Then you're using offsets, which is the crux of the disagreement regarding the utility of offsets.
Then you're using offsets, which is the crux of the disagreement regarding the utility of offsets.
The UX, as noted, is ugly - have to somehow support scrolling in both directions with some sort of lazy-loading - but pagination in this context doesn't === offset-based pagination.