Every time this subject comes up, someone trots out the old canard that tables messed with screen readers and therefore were irretrievably bad. Or they say fro

Every time this subject comes up, someone trots out the old canard that tables messed with screen readers and therefore were irretrievably bad. Or they say from the highest and mightiest and ivoryest pedestal "separation of semantics and display, thus spaketh the lord" pretending, of course, that modern websites look and behave just like documents when that's demonstrably false, and that tables are therefore irretrievably bad. And instead you now have, 20 years later (TWENTY! YEARS!) something that only now works as well for layout. Adding "not-data" and navigation directives to tables to aid screen readers and separate semantics would not have taken 20 years. And now you'll have to wait another 5 years before this new, "just as good as tables!" feature is sufficiently widespread to actually deploy it without a polyfill shim. But please tell me more about what I do or don't know.