They are actually not that easier to use. More intuitive perhaps, but they have enough quirks on their own. I briefly taught a web design class and I remember

They are actually not that easier to use. More intuitive perhaps, but they have enough quirks on their own. I briefly taught a web design class and I remember students struggling with their table-based layouts. Layouts would be inconsistent from one page to the next because of content stretching the cells, and they could never figure out why dimensions set on a table or cell would be ignored by the browser.