[Zikes]

Tables are for tabular data. The layout functionality is perfectly fine for layout, but the fact that you're semantically describing the page contents as tabular data goes against the original intent and meaning for the <table> element.

[ajross]

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.

[woogley]

You're speaking as if table layouts are equivalent to CSS grid layouts. They're not, otherwise `display: table-cell` would have been enough.

[bshimmin]

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...)