I’m not much of one for reading magazines, but I’m with the OP. And my random experience with American magazines is that they’re very much prone to starting an article on a page near the front and then continuing it at a different part of the magazine, so the lack of printed page nos. is made even more annoying.
On a thematically related note to the OP:
Makers of shop signs in the UK appear to have caught the same disease as the magazine layout people. Very few now include a street number in the corner, which means that it’s now a real pain to find addresses on a high street. Grrrr!! :mad: