Google Pages vs Google Sites

Change is good in most cases. What about the case of Google Pages versus Google Sites? I help teach a technology course at the University of Northern Iowa. I recently learned that Google Pages is no longer accepting new users and all users are being directed to Google Sites. I received my crash course today on Google Sites and have a week to get familiar with the program. This is what I observed and evaluated about the program so far. Keep in mind modifying the HTML is not an option.
Google Sites allows the user to use different forms of editing that was not available in Google Pages. For example, if I copied and pasted an already prepared table in to Google Pages I would be unable to do any modifications to the table. However in Google Sites a user is able to make modifications like adding and deleting rows and resizing the table.
Another change that I noticed was is in relation to deleting websites. I noticed that I have the opportunity to delete websites on Google Sites. Google Pages did not offer this change and once you created a website you were stuck with it. I originally began my Google Pages when a user was able to have 5 websites eventually it was changed to 3. The only negative I was able to learn about deleting a website is once you delete it you no longer have the ability to use that same site address again. Maybe it is something that take 24-48 hours to update and will have access to once again.
Google Sites does have some limitations. Google Pages allowed the user to "View Live". That is the user was able to view their page as if they were looking at it as a viewer would on the Internet.
On a personal level I enjoyed the use of the Site Manager page where the user was able to switch between the Grid view and List view. I liked the list view because I was able to view my last modifications, the name of the page, and the page address all on this view.
I started this posting by stating change is good in most cases. This is a case when I feel that Google Sites is a much-improved program to that of Google Pages.
On a side not I recently downloaded Google Chrome; check out my post on that within the next few days. Well here is hoping that I get to it anyway.