[rchaud]

Even the official Markdown guide suggests using a table generator because the markup is a hassle:

https://www.markdownguide.org/extended-syntax/

HTML tables are similarly cumbersome, with or without closing tags. If you have a table of static information to fill in, copy/pasting from Excel into a HTML table generator and pasting the output is signficantly faster.

[jefftk]

Markdown is suggesting using a generator for writing, but you were saying it was unlikely that someone would be reading a table in source.

I'd also much rather write an HTML table by hand than a markdown one.