Task query as table

[tobei]

Can't the task query be a kind of FROM clause instead of an entirely different kind of query? I would love to be able to build table from tasks instead of pages with queries like

TABLE name, due date, <calculated formula like age or urgency> FROM task WHERE .....

Since tasks can now have their own meta-data it would be nice to be able to display them in tabular format and thus also introduce some calculated conlumn value based on those formula like can be done for pages.

Somehow i see TABLE as being an output format, while TASK is being a source and not a format, so I find is strange to not be able to mix and match format and source because both type of query seems to disagree that I can display a TASK in a TABLE format.