It can, the gripe that I don't have a good solution for is what happens when entry 3 is a 7-letter name?
With LSP and Marksman [0], those tables get formatted automatically on save for me.
IntelliJ repads the tables automatically when cells get bigger. I think you can even resize using the mouse!
you switch to org!
Honestly, updating tables in markdown has been my most successful use of AI :)
Then you need to re-pad everything (clean looking git diff be damned). It's just the reality of dealing with bounding boxes. Maybe we don't notice it in HTML and such since the browser redraws them for us for free.