A page of inclusions and exclusions used to be one "Next" per checkbox — forty taps to cross a section where the honest answer is usually "none of these". That's why the work gets skipped.
To set it up: select the block, then Turn into an option group. Give it a prompt (the default is "Check whichever apply — or none").
What the signer gets: Next stops on the block once and shows your prompt. They tick whatever applies — any number, including none — and the next Next moves past the whole thing.
Required on an option group means "at least one", decided for the group rather than each box. The untouched thirty-nine don't each read as an outstanding field.
It works on any field type, not just checkboxes — a block of optional text behaves the same way.
Note that Next does stop on the block once rather than skipping it silently. A section nobody sees is a section nobody filled in, which is the problem this exists to solve.