I remember that transition and I wish we had nicer layout replacements like flex and grid because let’s face it – table layouts were more intuitive especially since we didn’t have to wrangle with responsive layouts. Thankfully, grid systems abstracted away a lot of the headache in that meantime. I think sites like https://www.csszengarden.com/ really helped with understanding the “modern” way of doing layouts along with all the other nifty things you could do.