[LocalPCGuy]

I'm not saying there aren't some devs who fit in the box you describe, but semantic HTML is an important part of web dev and many front end devs still ascribe to it. As you said, tags have meanings and we should use the appropriate one for the appropriate thing.

And there are most definitely ways to use even the table tag responsibly (and responsively, although that is harder).

And that is absolutely the standard. Just because people ignore it doesn't mean the standards don't exist. Random blog posts do not change that.