[marcosdumay]

Doing layout with tables creates a mess of non-semantic cells, with spans everywhere. That is hard to read, hard to write, brittle on changes, and obscure the actual content. If you take a random page from the tables era, the odds are great that you won't be able to tell what text goes next to what other text.

Divs that follow the document's semantic hierarchy and are positioned on your CSS have none of those issues.

Anyway, a lot of ways to use Bootstrap and other grid-based frameworks introduce the same problems back. And if you want to really display things in a table, well, a table fits quite well your requirements.