At Ignite 2017, we announced the next wave of innovation coming to SharePoint pages to provide faster time to creation, enhanced control of text and images, increased promotion options, commenting an...
Thanks Ivan Unger for your response. Debra Currie - as Ivan mentioned in his reply above, experience simplicity and what user can override within RTE is planned such that we can enhance text readability on Mobile, keep color site theme consistent, as well as offer accessible experiences to ALL users. Being able to edit HTML is not something we plan to support yet, not until we can help content author create content by informing them of inaccessible elements/ colors, optimization for mobile and overall site theme/ colors consistency.
Here's all the functionality within RTE, that you should already have apart from table styles and alignment (rolling out soon) - James-Brennan, KevinCrossman - FYI as you asked about some basic styling for tables. Debra Currie - If there is a text formatting option that you think is missing but highly used, please let us know and we will look into your suggestion. Please leave feedback here as well as tell us via user voice.