Hi @Jordan Invision
we use Pages a lot I think. On my wishlist are still
more possibilities for interaction with our community in articles - polls, surveys, forms etc.
Schema.org markers as FAQ or How-to
SEO features – more than meta keywords and meta description as now, but also SEO title, settings for no-follow etc. per article or Pages database entry
a "Table of content" by default, which can be switched off per article
additional fields for images (alt text, title, caption, credit, license, image source as URL and so on)
better management and SEO options for images
background images for categories as for forums grid viewtext area for category descriptions (and not only one text field)
an option to show category descriptions only on category sites and not in categories overview.
widgets per category and not for all categories together (yes, there's an app for that)
the option to set multiple authors for one article
snippet preview at least in ACP
better options in menu manager to include a single entry from a Pages database (an article for example). So many menu entries are "external links" but actually "things" in Pages.
Before we switched from WordPress to Pages, our pain point was for a long time the ugly standard template. I think you give away a lot of potential with the developer driven, more technocratic template. If you want to convince people about Pages, you need a nice article template out of the box. (You should hire @opentype completely 🙂) Once Pages is understood, the many possibilities become more accessible.