replied on August 18, 2017
I could see that possibly being a primary use for the Pagination, but the settings on the form let you pick if you want Previous/Next buttons to be displayed at all and if it should be displayed as Navigation Tabs, Navigation DropDown, a Progress Bar or to hide them completely.
Our Forms have a collection with about 10 fields in it that typically is filled out with multiple items per form. Having them collapse within a section makes it more difficult for reviewers to be able to go to that collection directly on our forms. The pages also help separate out what a previous person entered from the data this step needs to focus on. It's more for providing context that is easily available to the person currently acting on the form in the process, which yes could also be done with a collapsible section as well.
When using Navigation Tabs, it doesn't imply that you should have to progress through the tabs just to get to the submit button. I didn't expect the submit buttons to be at the very end of the process when the comments are always available.
I think it is hidden because it is automatically added to the end of the page which happens to be grouped into whatever content is in the last page regardless of the pagination settings being used. The submit buttons are within their own DIV at the end of the page. I think I could use some JS/CSS to make it visible at all times and not be associated to the end of the page.
I'll have to work with this some more but it seems like it'd be pretty simple.