This stackexchange answer (particularly, the one in the comment using \addfontfeature{RawFeature=+tnum}) is fairly easy to implement & is a better default than the current.
The reason to use the one in the comment is that it doesn't require explicitly specifying a font like the main solution does, so whatever regular font is in use can just be modified…
This stackexchange answer (particularly, the one in the comment using
\addfontfeature{RawFeature=+tnum}) is fairly easy to implement & is a better default than the current.The reason to use the one in the comment is that it doesn't require explicitly specifying a font like the main solution does, so whatever regular font is in use can just be modified…
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/99640/tabular-numbers-in-tables-proportional-in-text
PR coming with this feature when I have a chance.