The real question here is how often are you displaying enough table rows where the difference in performance really matters? If an admin panel were outputting

The real question here is how often are you displaying enough table rows where the difference in performance really matters? If an admin panel were outputting let's say a list of users, it might decide to output them in a table format but it'll probably limit it to maybe 50 rows at a time. Even if you have infinite scrolling where the table gets larger and you scroll down to a few hundred it gets to the point where the user is just not going to continue. Why would you manually scroll down through hundreds/thousands of names when you could just search for the one you want and get it instantly?