So... and I swear I'm not being as glib as I sound: The only reason Grid is OK and Table isn't is adherence to the design intent of a 25 year old SGML hack?
Basically you're just restating the orthodoxy. I know the orthodoxy. I'm asking if maybe this is time to revisit it, and wondering if maybe the last 16 years of flamage were a mistake.
This is a very fair point. For instance, you can't do the sticky footer Flexbox example with a table layout: https://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/demos/stick... (or, at least, I can't immediately think how you'd do it, but hey, it's late, and it's been more than a decade since I've used tables to lay things out...)
