Why do I need to use The Loop on pages (inside page.php etc)?

The wording is (for historical reasons) a bit confusing. Actually Post can mean two things in WordPress:

  1. The literal Post as in Blog-Post
  2. A general term encompassing other default Post Types (like e.g. Pages) or Custom Post Types.

So there is the Post Type “post” just like there is the Post Type “page”.

Here is a link to the Codex which elaborates on that a bit more: https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types

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