Recognize Table Views as tables

[DaveMcPherson]

I often need to create Table Views of linear feature class (FC) attribute tables to either create secondary geometric features (eg line centroids based on XY attributes, or linear referencing (LR) point or line events based on From/To chainage fields), or to use as tabular input to geoprocessing tools that require a table as input.

Unfortunately, Table Views in ArcGIS Pro that do not include the Shape field are still classed as a Feature Class datatype, and not as a table, causing GP tools such as the LR Event Overlay tools to fail. The workaround is to copy these table views to a physical file on disk or in memory, which is an inefficient consumption of memory and disk I/O resources.

My request is for Table Views that exclude the original Shape field to be classed as tables, and for the shape type of any geometry derived from these table views (such as XY point events) to override the original FC shape type.