I agree! But the main failing of the original design of CSS (which could resolve most of these arguments) is that they didn't include a way to do page layout in the way that tables work. Many years later, with CSS3, they've finally adding it. But it seems like an obvious layout deficiency given the previous use of tables for layout.
Page layout equivalent to tables was already included in CSS2 which was finalized more than a decade ago. It is just that browsers - specifically IE - were slow to support it.
CSS3 has some proposals for grid based layouts that is much more powerful that CSS2/tables.
