I almost never use email on anything but my phone, and Gmail doesn't use a table. They do some tree stuff for the conversation threads, but conversation threads are obnoxious anyway and I have no idea why anyone likes them, they don't reflect face to face conversations well and always create mistakes where someone forgets to reply to all.

I've replaced a lot of tables in my apps with modal dialog UIs, it's nice to have them behave exactly the same on mobile and web, to not have any risk of mistakes due to filling in a box on the wrong row because the label is too far from the box, and it's just generally more pleasant for us non-ADHDers without very good native multthreading support in our minds.

Android style UI is all about encapsulation and reducing the mental context window to the bare minimum, and it really makes a lot of desktop stuff look pretty clunky and confusing by comparison.

VS Code would definitely suffer a lot without the sidebar tree view though, and it does seem like a lot of people prefer the more open instant access to everything that a table provides, rather than clicking through dialogs.