Morning. Thanks for the response.
We manually number our questions and in many cases we've an introductory section where we collect information on the company/client (attributes such as company name, jurisdiction, size, etc.). We don't number those questions and have a style-preference not to do so.
Additionally, we might occasionally break a question into, for example, 1a., 1b., etc. That being the case, I don't want the the default user response-validation text to refer to, perhaps, 'Question 16', whereas in our form that question might be, for example, numbered as 8.
Those are the reasons for my query.