This was never true, I believe, and only a theoretical issue invented by the semantic-HTML obsessed.
From [1]: “It is sometimes suggested, even by some accessibility advocates, that layout tables are bad for accessibility. In reality, layout tables do not pose inherent accessibility issues.”
From [1]: “It is sometimes suggested, even by some accessibility advocates, that layout tables are bad for accessibility. In reality, layout tables do not pose inherent accessibility issues.”
[1] https://webaim.org/techniques/tables/