Amending tables...

Just a general question…

I have just gone over Chapter 16 in the manual, during my review–I fully understand tables and their uses, and the use of appending rows to them, but 16.19 is about amending tables–is this mainly for making table use more convenient during writing/testing, when your source code has gotten enormous and you don’t want to have to shift way back up to change entries in the table? I can see how appending rows is useful for the same reason.
Question already answered.

I’ve always found it useful to amend tables when you have an extension whose basic data is kept in a table. The default state can then be supplied in the extension, without compromising your ability to alter that functionality.

Thanks Eleas.