The anti-table hysteria has vexed me for years. From a purely practical POV tables were simply the only way to achieve things in a broad browser base until only

The anti-table hysteria has vexed me for years. From a purely practical POV tables were simply the only way to achieve things in a broad browser base until only the last few years. But what really drove me nuts was when that hysteria extended to things that were clearly tabular. I remember trying to copy paste a list of transactions from the Morgan Stanley site and it just didn't work. Confused why I looked at the source and the "table" was in fact just a series of divs with a lot of CSS to make it look like a table. A table could be copied and pasted into a Google spreadsheet trivially. Instead I had to manually reenter the data. I feel like a lot of this could have been prevent d had we simply created HTML elements called <grid> years ago.