Pagination links missing for first link (1) and previous button? How to get pagination links to work?

I’ve updated the base in my $args which has resolved the issue.

'base' => preg_replace('/\?.*/', "https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/", get_pagenum_link()) . '%_%',

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