Tabular and grid typesetting

Question

In my document, I try to remove most of the vertical stretch, using some of the tricks detailed in this document. Specifically, I have

\setlength{\lineskiplimit}{-10pt}
\setlength{\lineskip}{0pt}

This, however, does not play nicely with \cmidrule from booktabs. From other posts, I gleaned, that the tabular environment uses different spacing methods, i.e., it sets \baselineskip to zero and relies on the \lineskiplimit to get correct spacing. This breaks when using the trick above, which is made even more clear when using \setlength{\lineskiplimit}{-999pt}: any table is rendered as a single line, in which all content is overlapping. What is a good/elegant way to fix this problem?

edit: The package grid is often mentioned as solving (part of) the grid typesetting issue, but this package also breaks \tabular:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{grid}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{cc}
    one & two \\
    three & four \\end{tabular}
\end{document}

Answer 1

Using David's suggestion, I used

\let\oldtabular\tabular
\let\oldendtabular\endtabular
\def\tabular{\setlength{\lineskiplimit}{0pt}\oldtabular}
\def\endtabular{\oldendtabular\setlength{\lineskiplimit}{-10pt}}

which more or less seems to fix the problem. If anyone has a more elegant/better solution, please let me know!