The page list has come in handy a few times already and now we have even more features to add. Let's assume your site has lots of visitors frequently looking for the top news on your site. Putting them on the landing page might work but search engines will quite likely forward your visitors to all kinds of sub-pages you created.
What could we do if we wanted to offer an easy access to our top news pages on every page? You could add a standard page list everywhere but that would take up space for which you probably have a better use. Couldn't we just add a News button which shows the list when the visitor hovers over the button? Not out of the box but you're just a few steps away from it!