The same could be said for color, just to then go into detail that using color codes on too many columns and with unclear associations are the problem. This is just a weird way to frame an article. Colors and icons are indeed essential to quickly parse and use big amounts of tabular data. All the criticisms the author brings forward are specific problems of some implementations or just poor choices. All this is solved by putting a few key icons in their own column next to the text field they belong to, so users can hide and show them as needed depending on the task. I have eg. a basic indicator that is a red exclamation mark or yellow question mark or green checkmark and another one with a colored icon representation of a category field. Its 100 times easier to get a quick impression and find something than without those. if someone has a problem its 2 clicks to hide the columns, thats the universality of a table ui! Don’t let absolutist click bait articles fool you.
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