Confusing and inconsistent array-of-dicts display #2417
Description
These three arrays of dicts are displayed in totally different ways:
Structurally they are the same, and REPL shows them in very similar ways.
I would expect all of them to display as the first one, with the Pluto explorer. The second seems outright wrong, and the third just confusing and inconvenient.
More generally, I often find the table viewer too "eager" to engage. Maybe, there should be an override toggle (display as table or with interactive explorer) in each cell output? It would be useful both ways: sometimes tables don't get recognized.
Notebook file
### A Pluto.jl notebook ###
# v0.19.18
using Markdown
using InteractiveUtils
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using StructArrays
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[Dict(1 => 2), Dict(3 => 4)]
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[Dict(1 => 2), Dict(3 => 4)] |> StructArray
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[Dict("a" => 2), Dict("b" => 4)]
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