"It has been a constant source of delight for me...to tell...people who want to control what their documents look like in ways that would be trivial in TeX, Microsoft Word, and every other common text processing environment: "Sorry, you're screwed." - Marc Andreesen (1992) #CSS

I wish people would embrace the simplicity of HTML layout than to over complicate it.

Do you specifically mean table-based layout? Or simply well-structured HTML? Before progressive design with CSS, transiitional design was a reasonable approach: Minimal table for layout, CSS for design for browsers with implementation. Overcomplication is not a Web user's friend.

Well structured HTML. Simple, clean designs with CSS. Tables for tabular data only, not for layout.