Just throwing my two cents in for realisms sake... I'm a woodworker in real life, and I use a lot of traditional techniques that have been used for centuries. The traditional woodworkers table, which has changed little since the 1600s, is not a portable piece of carpentry. It's a solidly built table, with large mortised joints, integrated wood vices, and holdfast holes, and heavy lumber that can resist the impacts and abuse that is generated by sawing, clamping and planing down wood. These aren't the light tables that are generically displayed by the game. Such a light table like that would be ripped apart by typical woodworking. I know the same model is used inside workshops in the game, but at least in my imagination, I picture those as being actual worktables/benches.
If realism if a goal that is wanted for crafting (to a degree, I know it's a game and we don't want to make everything exact), a woodworkers table should be a stationary table in a workshop. They generally weigh over a hundred pounds and more. It's not something that you should be throwing together in a field quickly, and then tearing down again and putting in your pack. It's be almost impossible for one person to move them by themselves fully constructed. These tables generally sat in their workshops all their lives, unless the woodworker moved.
Bearing that in mind, I think the current set up is a practical facsimile of real woodworking, with the needed simplifications that are needed for the server.
Sawhorses, are a completely different matter, and have existed for centuries as well. They are always for lighter work in the field, and are only used for heavy work out of absolute necessity.
