What's more tidy about it ?
You're right - not much. If you wanted the mean, sum, and length of a table, it would be 3 message boxes and one [tabletool]. Otherwise it would be 3 bangs and 3 instances of [tabltool/whatever]. Not a big difference. I guess in this case I just lean toward the method-centric side as you point out. And your point about "sinesum" is exactly where my leaning comes from. You can send "sinesum" "write" "read" "const" "resize" to a table, so there's already a history of methods there.