I really want to use Pages, but you keep recommending other word processors. Don't I ever need Pages?

No.

You never need Pages. It would be exceptional if you ever needed to do something that only Pages could do.

However, there are a lot of things Pages does really well.

If you want a great layout for a document with correct colours, shadows, typography and image handling, Pages does an excellent job for its price.

There is currently no cheaper program that handles that kind of layout tasks better than Pages. There are a few much more expensive programs of course, like Adobe Creative Suite. But many more expensive programs, like MS Word handles most layout tasks less well. MS Word is for example completely unable to handle ligatures or the typographic features of OpenType fonts, even though Microsoft were the ones who developed OpenType with Adobe.

Besides, if you think these FAQ are as much about what you cannot do in Pages as what you can do, that may be a sign that Pages is reasonably easy to use. What Pages can do is usually easy to do, so people will not ask how to do it. However, it is not always easy to see what limitations Pages has, so that is where people ask questions. And this blog tries to answer them.