Query a list - Solution for limitation

Need Nintex to allow developers to query a list up to a limit of our choice that even if the criteria exceeds that criteria, it doesn't fail. It simply gives you what was queried up to the limit allowed.

For example:

Query a list that has 15,000 items where field x is "blank" or equal to a specific value, sort by ID and we put 3,000 items. Nintex would simply only collect up to 3,000 list items that meet that criteria. We create a loop that has an update item action in it that stamps a value in a field that is not used to as the initial criteria to query the list items. We'd call the workflow back through until nothing is left using conditional action.

We have no solution on querying any list that has over 5k which this need is unavoidable at our company as we support several HR automation needs. We have almost 30,000 employees we sometimes have to loop through.