Agreed. Most if not all of the production tables I have are using very simple architecture. Pagination + Data Exploration utilities like sort/filter/group/etc.

In no way am I preaching that these plugins should used. However, I am proud that they can be used. And if you end up being one of the users that only needs a few things to make your production tables great, then you win again by being able to treeshake out all of the other stuff you choose not to use.