You raise an important point. It would definitely be nicer to have a way to load tabular data and have it be readable (and able to be copied/pasted).

Unfortunately, I suspect Drupal uses tables for layout. Consequently tables inside of tables can mess up the page layout. So if SuperG says no, this is probably the core of why.

Well, looky there. I was responding to your post and it does offer tables.

production consumption
not enough too much

Great!