I actually prefer sitting at a table for almost everything, rather than on a lunging chair.
I spend most of my sitting down time during the day at my desk, whether I am working, reading or listening the radio. I raely watch tv and often sit at the kitchen table in the evening reading, with the table supporting my book.
We have just spent a week at a Gite in France. It was furnished the traditional way, with the main reception room dominated by a huge refectory table with benches each side and a modestly sized sofa between the fireplace and the front wndows. In the evenings those watching television sat one end of the table, while those reading sat the other. No comment was made on this arrangement all week.