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Modern Team Sites vs. Communication Sites--is there really a difference?
I may be late to this conversation if it's been had already, but now that my organization has gained access to more Modern page design features (editable banner, Hero web part, Events web part, layou...
- There are a few under the covers things that I have found are different (but those are minor so far).
The main things I've found are:
1) Comm Site default pages have a full width web part zone (modern team sites dont)
2) Comm Site uses left navigation on top and has no "top navigation"
3) Team sites have left navigation, if you want to hide them you have to do it with some CSS
Other than that, I've technically been able to make Team sites look and act like comm sites, in most respects with a little CSS hackery. Like Andrew mentioned though, we are completely rethinking how we have done everything because of the new modern world, and we are having to do ALOT of mini-migrations from one site to another to make things make the most sense.
If by "modern team site" you mean a site powered by Office 365 Groups then of course those "team sites" get all the related Office 365 Group services (Planner, OneNote, Outlook distribution list). Communications sites don't get those.
Should've been more clear--I meant sites created under a site collection, not Office 365 Groups.