Ask most learners what speaking Spanish involves and you get a description of an assembly line.
Take the verb. Remove the ending. Work out whether it is I, you, he, we or they. Decide on the tense. Reattach. Now find the noun, the article, the preposition. Assemble. Say it.
That process is real, it is what school taught, and it is far too slow for a conversation. By the time it finishes, the moment it was for has gone.
The Assumption Underneath
The assembly line assumes speech is built from parts at the moment of speaking. For a beginner using a textbook, it is.
Native speakers do not do this. "Voy a comer" is not three components joined under time pressure. It is one item, stored whole, retrieved whole. The conjugation happened long ago and permanently.
This is not a shortcut or an approximation. It is how fluent speech is actually produced.
What Changes If You Store It That Way From the Start
If the unit you learn is the finished phrase rather than the raw verb, the assembly step never has to happen. There is nothing to conjugate, because it arrived conjugated.
The trade is obvious and worth stating: you get less flexibility per item. You cannot rebuild a chunk into any tense you like the way a conjugation table lets you.
What you get instead is speed, and speed is the entire problem. A slightly limited sentence that arrives in time beats a perfect one that arrives after the subject has changed.
Why It Is Not as Limiting as It Sounds
Chunks recombine. A few dozen high-frequency ones cover a surprising amount of ordinary conversation, because ordinary conversation is far more repetitive than it feels from the inside.
The tables are still there if you want them. They are simply not in the path any more.
About Outputly
Every phrase in an Outputly song is pre-conjugated and learned whole, so nothing has to be assembled while somebody waits for you.