This feels inline with what I intended. Used sparingly, tables probably weren't that atrocious to figure out. Similarly, deliberate use of semantic tags is likely better. I question if things are deliberate are much better now. But, you provide a convincing and authoritative answer there.
Html email feels like a trap. They are about turning up the volume and getting returns. Not about being accessible. Is that not the case?
About HTML email, I think it's different in a work context. When I was at Microsoft, some official messages, that were actually important to read, were laid out in the style of an HTML marketing email, complete with heavy abuse of layout tables. Ditto for automated notifications, e.g. about bugs or PRs.
Ah, that makes sense. And feels like a mistake from the department that sent the messages.
My gut is still that better tooling support for standard messages would have helped faster than more primitives in the message. But, I welcome evidence that I'm wrong.
Html email feels like a trap. They are about turning up the volume and getting returns. Not about being accessible. Is that not the case?