What problem does this address?

The new layout controls in the query pagination block give us the ability to align the next/previous buttons, which is super helpful, but when there are fewer posts on a blog, these next/previous links aren't output which means the page numbers can jump around a bit, for example:

What is your proposed solution?

In Blockbase we use CSS Grids to control the position of these elements, which means if one is missing then they continue to stay in the same place.

In addition it would also be useful to have an option to hide page numbers on smaller screen sizes.