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Indeed, the implementation I have from many years ago when I played with it was simple, something like this giving one a 4x4 table.
{table}{row}{cell}{/cell}{cell}{/cell}{/row}{row}{cell}{/cell}{cell}{/cell}{/row}{/table}

(Of course, in your simple example, you did lose a {/cell} before the table close, thus opening the can of troubleshooting and support needs that tables will end up creating. *chuckle*)

To be really useful, though, tables do need things like width and cell combining (rowspan and colspan). While it perhaps doesn't need that functionality to begin with, it would need to expand to offer it without breaking the old.

The WdC todo list is an unwieldy number of pages, but when I finish up a couple of the things I'm hopefully near finishing up, I'll reopen this case. The last playing I did with this was before things like linespace and dropnotes, both of which are similar in their ability to mess up a page -- but not as complicated or widely used as tables would be - I can likely port some of the code over.

~~SM