When I make a tablex table inside a figure and reference it, it thinks it is a figure, and not a table:

Whereas a normal table changes the counter and text separately for tables:

From the docs the text problem has to do with the supplement field. I do not know about the internals of the counters.

I have a deadline in a month (June 1st). Do you think this could be worked out before that, so that I can keep using this awesome package, and get the fix in before the deadline?