Not sure how I feel about wholesale removing the method. If we do, that'll require the user to **always** provide the schema/attributes/throughput, when that's really a one-time thing (on creation). I don't like the return value as it stands, but it does provide some useful info (item counts, storage amounts, etc) that they'd otherwise have to drop to the low-level interface to use. I'm open to more debate on it though.