From a user perspective, the quantity of products shown in the grid is more significant than the depth of the description. Displaying more products enables easier navigation without the need for pagination or filtering.
Reduces pagination, moving a product from 36 pages deep to half is beneficial for SEO. Ideally, place it on the first page of a subcategory to be only 2 pages deep.
In short, expand the number of products shown in your grid. Just be sure to use lazy-loading, you don’t want 36 product images loaded at one time.