AEM regular view vs Assets view

We are trying to improve workflows around asset uploads and it seems like there are some basic steps you can only do in Assets View and others you can only do in regular (ie. sites) view. Are we missing something?

For instance,

• in Assets View, you can auto-name a batch of files in a sequence (eg img-xyz-1, img-xyz2, etc) but you can’t in Sites.
• In Sites view you can add custom metadata to a batch of assets but in Assets View you can only do that if using a default metadata schema
• In Sites view you can add a description to a batch of assets, but in Assets View you can’t

This feels really counter-intuitive that you have to jump between views so I wondered if we are missing something.

Thank you.