3 finger flicks on my tablet, and 7 finger flicks on my phone… 7 finger flicks is a couple seconds.
This is an outrage!
About 8 flicks for typical posts on 7"tablet in landscape.
It takes 10 flicks to get to the bottom of a Bill Wiltrack thread with 9 posts!! Grrr 
Next page button is easier.
My humble guess is that Mo has a 10" iPad. 
My gods.
This needs to be fixed.
Major problem? No
Important for user experience? Yes
Do you have to be a dick about it? Apparently yes
Ye, they should have #x