Not as many viewports to support back then. Look at the hacks we used to get tables to be responsive over a decade ago: https://css-tricks.com/responsive-data-t

Not as many viewports to support back then. Look at the hacks we used to get tables to be responsive over a decade ago: https://css-tricks.com/responsive-data-tables/ https://css-tricks.com/responsive-data-tables/ Using tables was hell compared to Grid. First time I've seen this described as "good."