Yeah, you can do pagination, but you need two request : one to select everything, the second to only return the results between id x and id y. Needless to say, the performances are far from ideal.

But in recent version you do skip and take x, which is far easier to write. But my codebase date back to the 2000's, and it uses the old ways.

As an example, an SQL request to filter on an handful of parameters, and paginate, easily amount to 40-50 lines of SQL. And that's the easy ones, because some request uses multiple view, in which case I wouldn't be surprised to find a request doing more than 100 lines of SQL, maybe without even factoring the view in.