You are free to use one of the many tableview helper libraries if you aren't happy with the tradeoff between flexibility and convenience that the built-in API m

You are free to use one of the many tableview helper libraries if you aren't happy with the tradeoff between flexibility and convenience that the built-in API makes. You could argue that the frameworks should ship with such a wrapper, but I'd personally rather that they spent their time making difficult things easier than making easy things easier.