Comment by hnlmorg

I don’t think tables are human readable in any machine readable format, not even markdown.

The problem is when you have long cells that you’d normally word wrap inside the cell, everything else ends up misaligned in your markup language. Or when you need to add styling to text in a cell, suddenly it’s unreadable again. Or when there’s more than a small few number of columns thus causing each row to word wrap inside your IDE, etc

I think it makes far more sense to just acknowledge that tables are going to ugly, compose them elsewhere, and then export them to your markup language following that language’s specification strictly.