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Progressive enhancement for JavaScript is not only a accessibility and usability issue, it has become a security issue. Tor enabled JavaScript by default, because the web would break without JavaScript support, and that hampered adoption rates of Tor.

We already had a programmable web. If anything we are moving away from machine-readable code.

If progressive enhancement does not fit your development style, and takes too much time to build, well... fine. I see this not as a fault of progressive enhancement, but in your approach. To me it is akin to saying that writing unit tests takes you too much time, and hence, testing makes no sense.