HTML mails are routinely formatted using tables since that is what most mail clients correctly understand, it's essentially the design standard there. People m

HTML mails are routinely formatted using tables since that is what most mail clients correctly understand, it's essentially the design standard there. People manage on HN but on reddit people freely use these formattings fairly regularly and nobody seems to complain about that. Heck, using the markdown standard for formatting is already going away from text/plain and towards text/markdown, which isn't strictly plaintext.