[Animats]

Here's the famous 2004 article on why tables are bad.[1] Cool people do everything with break and div. The CSS crowd then spent two decades re-inventing tables.

[1] https://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/everything.html

[socalgal2]

Tables are not responsive. They don't adjust to changing screen sizes. That was okay, maybe, when everyone was only on desktop/laptops but changed once mobile and tablets appeared.

[AmbroseBierce]

I definitely want to see that state+population table in mobile as a single element that I can just scroll to not 3 elements fighting for horizontal space thank you very much.

[coolgoose]

What? Tables are responsive, they auto adjust widths or columns, you can control which are fixed width and which are fluid.

[Animats]

Yes. You can specify width as fixed, percentage, or leave it blank.

Here's an old all-tables site of mine.[1] Try resizing the window. Works fine. It won't narrow down to mobile dimensions well, though.

[1] https://downside.com/news.html

[socalgal2]

The person I was responding do linked to an article about tables for layout, not tables for data