I feel like this is going nowhere...

The question was: What do people use now to create HTML tables instead of the table manipulation API described in this blog post.

I said:

- If you render a table on the client (not what JS was originally built for, but what it is often used for now) using a framework like React, you declaratively render the table using its semantic elements (table, thead, tbody, tr, td etc.) instead of imperatively building it up using that API

- If you render a table on the server, you essentially do the same (output the table markup)

That's why I described the above mentioned table API as "niche", which you seem to have taken offense with but I still have no idea why.

Maybe you're suggesting that this API is commonly used to add interactivity to a table element on a page with JS? I could see it being used for that, no idea if it is, I still have the feeling that just using regular Element APIs is more common - the question was also about creating tables specifically, not manipulating them, so that's why I mentioned declarative frontend frameworks.