Isn't one of our "problems" that too many people go to the end of the thread and start posting without reading what's already there.
Don't you get a choice, at the top, which page to go to?
My biggest complaint with going to "pages" is it only "turns" the "number" when you've been in, not the thread name - so it makes it a lot harder to tell if something new has been posted since you were there. I'll confess that I sometimes click on the "pages" to look at it, and when I'm done reading, click the thread and then "Back" just to mark the thread - and I feel guilty about the extra bandwidth, but it makes it easier for me.