Pivot tables are so powerful, but there are soooo many things that could be improved on them. And bugs to be fixed…
https://community.palantir.com/t/enhancement-proposals-to-unleash-the-potential-of-pivot-tables/3770
Unfortuntely, I am not sure if we will ever see that day 
We decided to develop our own as custom widget. It works, but as long as custom widgets can’t easily be made object type agnostic, it is not as plug-and-play as the built-in.