Are there workarounds for working with Tasks in lightning-datatable LWC?

I ended up creating a Platform Event (fired when a Task is created/updated) that the LWC can subscribe to. Then in response to that event, the LWC calls the Apex method again to get fresh records. I was still having trouble getting the datatable to update when the @track property corresponding to the data is updated by that second Apex invocation. However, reassigning the tracked property with the spread operator fixed that problem:

handleDataUpdatedEvent() { console.log("*******calling handleDataUpdatedEvent"); // Get the updated records getRecords({strObjectApiName: this.relatedObjectApiName, strFieldPaths: this.fieldString, strWhereClause: this.whereClause, recordId: this.recordId, strRelationshipFieldAPIName: this.relationshipFieldApiName}) .then(data=>{ console.log('********data from get Updated Records: ' + JSON.stringify(data)); this.records = [...data]; this.sortData(this.sortBy, this.sortDirection); console.log("********this.records: " + JSON.stringify(this.records)); }) .catch(error=>{ this.error = error; }); }