Raw calls to DOM mean literally nothing when you have to layout those nodes. And yes, tables are slow. "If you know what you're doing" routinely becomes "let's

Raw calls to DOM mean literally nothing when you have to layout those nodes. And yes, tables are slow. "If you know what you're doing" routinely becomes "let's reinvent virtual lists on an interface that doesn't have a single API to make this pleasant or performant in any conceivable way".