[Sohcahtoa82]

> I personally disagree with people who disable JS and expect the web to continue working as expected

In a general sense, I agree with you.

But pages that are generally static, like a blog or news article, should still work.

I think it's completely reasonable that the animations in the linked article break with JS disabled. Could they have been done differently and had graceful degradation? Yeah, I suppose. But I think it's fine as-is.