Inline editing is a topic that's gone back a long time I wanted to highlight previous threads that have already gone into detail on this- all of the suggestions in these threads would be a huge improvement to allowing users to interact with tables. Inline editing is by far the easiest ways to get users to interact with data in the app but it's often not possible because a lot of features available in form edits are not available for inline editing. Previous threads on the topic:
1. Request to add filter features to inline editing
2. Request to add logging capabilities to inline editing
3. Inline editing based on field values (not allowed if status = complete)
4. Allow record rules to apply to inline editing