I do use Livewire to create my own datatable, and I prefer it over the datatable libary as I have more comfort on doing everything in PHP rather then using jQuery, it is much easier to debug if I have any issues.
I still use the datatables library heavily, as I have a legacy project that I still maintain, but I am slowly moving each table to use livewire instead.
So far, don't have any issues with livewire, except that it is much more things to create at first. I use exporting to excel and so on, for which I need to do it manually now, but I still do prefer it this way.