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The scrollbar only appears if the table is actually wider than the page. This template allows up to 30 row headers passed as parameters to its {{Scrolling table/top}} subtemplate, for convenience. Extra row headers can be added using regular table syntax, between the {{Scrolling table/top}} and the {{Scrolling table/mid}} subtemplates
See also: Meta: Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Reading/floating table headers and meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Reading/Enable sticky table headers. A scrolling table in the sense of the vertical scrollbar for the whole page. When you scroll the page the table headers stay visible when the table goes beyond the top of the screen.
The table's horizontal scroll doesn't work with this template, so wide tables span outside of the main content area making the entire page wider and requiring you to instead horizontally scroll the entire page. Zooming out to see the entire table makes the headers sticky, but also makes the text smaller and less readable the wider the table is.
For years in HTML, a table has always forced an implicit line-wrap (or line-break). So, to keep a table within a line, the workaround is to put the whole line into a table, then embed a table within a table, using the outer table to force the whole line to stay together. Consider the following examples: Wikicode (showing table forces line-break)
A table is an arrangement of columns and rows that organizes and positions data or images. Tables can be created on Wikipedia pages using special wikitext syntax, and many different styles and tricks can be used to customise them.
Help:Table#Scope is a generalization, because going into the specifics baffles many new table editors. And because it is based on a very old MOS guideline written in the days of yore before the many improvements of screen readers. Experienced table editors read the actual WCAG, etc. guidelines, and see that on simple tables it serves no purpose.
You can add a table using HTML rather than wiki markup, as described at HTML element#Tables. However, HTML tables are discouraged because wikitables are easier to customize and maintain, as described at manual of style on tables. Also, note that the <thead>, <tbody>, <tfoot>, <colgroup>, and <col> elements are not supported in wikitext.
2) The RHCP pages aren't using a table, but a chart table (de:Vorlage:Charttabelle), which looks like a table in a desktop browser, but changes in a mobile browser so that row data is displayed vertically as opposed to horizontally with the column headers listed at the top of the entire chart. In certain curcumstances, this might be a better ...