[onion2k]

I've mostly been a frontend dev since the late 1990s. CSS Grid does feel like building with tables in some respects. You don't suffer the problems tables had though, like the close coupling of layout to HTML, the necessity to have a tag for every cell, the rigid order of cells, or the spacer gifs to stop things collapsing. CSS Grid gives you the formality of a proper grid system with some really nice features for spacing, placement and ordering the content. Plus, in Grid, cells can overlap with other cells, so it's fairly easy to make some really clever designs that look great. It's been very well thought out, and it works.

I really wouldn't want to go back to even plain Flexbox now, let alone floating elements, tables, or any other layout system.