Sure! But if you render server side (as with PHP), you'd likely just build up your table on the server rather than dynamically on the client, so you would also not use these imperative table element specific APIs.

Even if, for some reason, you were filling in the table content dynamically via jQuery, I think the fashion there was also to just pass in whole HTML markup snippets as strings to be injected into the DOM, so you'd also more likely use plain <tr> elements than this table-specific API, same as with a 'hype' framework of now.