What is XLSX?
XLSX is what Excel has written since 2007 - not one file but a zipped folder of XML, with the sheet in one part and the strings in another. Its famous trap is dates: a date is stored as a plain number of days, and only the formatting attached to the cell says it is a date rather than a quantity.
What is HTML?
An HTML table is what a web page shows and what a browser copies to the clipboard. It carries structure a plain grid cannot - merged cells via colspan and rowspan - which is exactly the part a converter has to expand back into ordinary rows.