[ozaark]

I can't tell if you're serious or not, but tables are an absolute mess to handle layout.

Email clients handle the CSS code to varying degree of support when wrapping responsively so even if you think your layout looks good with wrapping it's because CSS influenced the layout in whatever particular client you are using. If client doesn't support CSS or the CSS properties you've used: jank email. Email unfortunately requires you to code like 1999 in this regard.

Browsers having CSS as standard and relatively up to date is a very good thing. Tables that aren't representation of tabular data are a mess.

[iamacyborg]

It's actually really simple to use tables to handle layout once you're used to it, like I said, it's what we had to do with email for a long time.

It does take some css, of course, but only width and max-width. That's basically it to turn a table responsive. Add the dir attribute and you can also control the stacking order of elements.

My point being, working in a constrained way (like with email) allows you to make the most of the properties available to you, and it turns out tables for layout (semantic issues aside) are easy to grok and work predictably and reliably.