Spoke with the team about this a bit more. It looks like this is sorta expected behavior based on how Pagination works. When you click next to get to the second “page” the URL changes, so you’re actually navigating to a different page — because of this you’ll load at the top.
That said, this is definitely still an odd experience and this is something I’ve shared with the team to see if we can improve the behavior here.
For now, I’d recommend building a carousel slider without pagination. Happy to share resources on that if needed!