What is the difference between a pod and a deployment?

I have been creating pods with type:deployment but I see that some documentation uses type:pod, more specifically the documentation for multi-container pods:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: ""
  labels:
    name: ""
  namespace: ""
  annotations: []
  generateName: ""
spec:
  ? "// See 'The spec schema' for details."
  : ~

But to create pods I can just use a deployment type:

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: ""
spec:
  replicas: 3
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: ""
    spec:
      containers:
        etc

I noticed the pod documentation says:

The create command can be used to create a pod directly, or it can
create a pod or pods through a Deployment. It is highly recommended
that you use a Deployment to create your pods. It watches for failed
pods and will start up new pods as required to maintain the specified
number. If you don’t want a Deployment to monitor your pod (e.g. your
pod is writing non-persistent data which won’t survive a restart, or
your pod is intended to be very short-lived), you can create a pod
directly with the create command.

Note: We recommend using a Deployment to create pods. You should use
the instructions below only if you don’t want to create a Deployment.

But this raises the question of what kind:pod is good for? Can you somehow reference pods in a deployment? I didn’t see a way. It looks like what you get with pods is some extra metadata but none of the deployment options such as replica or a restart policy. What good is a pod that doesn’t persist data, survives a restart? I think I’d be able to create a multi-container pod with a deployment as well.