Just a practical consideration, but the HTML table tag is actually a lot more restrictive (<table> can only contain <thead> <tbody> or <tr>, so no wrapping span

Just a practical consideration, but the HTML table tag is actually a lot more restrictive (<table> can only contain <thead> <tbody> or <tr>, so no wrapping span to regroup some table rows) than using <div>s. Can be important depending on third party libs.