I love DL. I think tables, at least in the past, were misused as DLs even more in the past and the inconvenience of the table markup is even worse than a bunch of divs.
You're right, but forcing tables to cosplay as DLs was far from the worst way that tables were abused.
I always thought the DL as a single row of a table.
It's not that inconvenient if you omit unnecessary closing tags:
I find it simpler and cleaner than any of the markdown table markups