This is one thing that has surprised me greatly about EN. Every word processor and lots of other apps have at least some rudimentary, on board table functionality. I'm not referring to anything as exotic as Calc or Excel. I agree one can just link in EN to one of those apps as needed. I mean just a basic way to lay out data in a table format - customize column and row sizes, fonts and background colors, etc.
Several months ago, I migrated out of the Microsoft world into Linux. I had been using Onenote very extensively and always thought of it as an active work space or desktop. I get the impression, perhaps wrongly as a newcomer, that the conceptual emphasis in EN is more as a highly searchable repository.