Hi @Steven_W this feature request is in our backlog. We don't have an eta yet, but I'll post here if it ends up getting prioritized
Currently, the paginated query can be manual, as long as you are using watched inputs. The endless loop behavior sounded like it was due to the total row count triggering on success of the paginated query, which then caused all of the table properties to re-evaluate. It's my understanding that as long as total row count & get rows are separate, you can have a manual query for pagination