thoughts3rased
commented
3 years ago 
(ignore the messed up embeds, that's my fault and is unrelated to the changes)
The top one is a deferred reply and the bottom one is a non-deferred reply. Both are able to navigate pages. Buttons are still solid past their timeout due to the fact that I closed my bot to make changes before the timeout expired.
This has been tested with both deferred and non-deferred replies. Since there's no minimum limit on replying after deferral, it might be best to defer all replies in order to save on lines where methods would be changed depending on whether it's been deferred or not, especially since it ends up deferred later on down the line.