If your skillset is with Word, stay with Word. The annual Office 365 subscription, or the one-time purchase of Office 2016 for Mac (the only supported Mac MS Office suite) — will cost you far less than the frustration of finding more missing features in Pages, and the inherent opportunity cost of your lost time.
Apple never had any intention of Pages being used as a corporate word processor, or competing with MS Word, and accordingly, withheld all those nice features that business and advanced consumer users continue to find in Word, but not in Pages.