There was in fact a use case, where an article's notes had to be kept with the article itself (e.g. in a journal with articles written by different authors). So when an article finishes halfway down a page, any footnotes on that page should appear immediately after the article, i.e. before the next article. But we're stuck with it, with Adobe's obsession with Adobe Express and AI there's not much hope for them to revisit footnotes.
I'm not sure what you mean by tabs or tables. The workaround that I would use is a variant of the scripts described here:
https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/footnotes_columns.html
The idea is to convert the notes to 'normal' text and place it as a separate story that runs at the foot of the pages. It requires some manual work but it's robust and simple. I used this method when InDesign didn't have footnotes yet, and continued to use it for jobs that had complex footnotes that InDesign couldn't handle. Or because I didn't trust InDesign.
Either of the two scripts would probably work for you, you could try them. They're pretty old but still work well. And as I said, they can be adjusted, just send me an email if there are any problems.
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