Selenium WebDriver: Actions.Pause() vs. Thread.Sleep() - selenium

Question

While not ideal, there are instances where a hard wait is the only thing that works. In my quest to avoid Thread.Sleep(), I found Actions.Pause() which appears to have the same effect. Apart from chaining it with other actions, is there any other technical difference (or advantage)?
Thread.Sleep():
Thread.Sleep(1000);
Actions.Pause():
Actions.Pause(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1)).Build().Perform();
EDIT:
Not looking into method chaining which the other thread does not answer. Interested on the actual difference of the 2 statements as is.

Answer 1

The internal implementation of
actions.pause()
is
public Actions pause(long pause) {
if (this.isBuildingActions()) {
this.action.addAction(new PauseAction(pause));
}
return this.tick(new Pause(this.defaultMouse, Duration.ofMillis(pause)));
}
where the pause action is actually involved by new PauseAction(pause)
The internal implementation of it is refenced to:
public class PauseAction implements Action, IsInteraction {
private final long pause;
public PauseAction(long pause) {
this.pause = pause;
}
public void perform() {
try {
Thread.sleep(this.pause);
} catch (InterruptedException var2) {
}
}
public List<Interaction> asInteractions(PointerInput mouse, KeyInput keyboard) {
return Collections.singletonList(new Pause(keyboard, Duration.ofMillis(this.pause)));
}
}
So, as you can see internally it utilizes...
Thread.sleep(this.pause);