[JeremyNT]

> I sometimes wonder if the people claiming to hate client-side technologies or disable JS in their browsers have actually ever had to build a complex website to put food on their table. My bet is the answer is often no, or they are a contrarian in general.

So, this is the kind of thing I make for my employer. But guess what? I can still do things the way I did them back when I learned Rails over a decade ago: HTML templates and a very small amount of JS to tell the server to re-render them when the user needs it.

What many of us really need is not fully dynamic SPA-type things, we just need some dynamic forms and some page elements that dynamically respond to user input. This is all stuff that you can also do without JS, if you design your site to handle that use case! Rails still makes it easy to make this kind of site with plain JS (or a lightweight framework like Stimulus, or jquery if you really want).

But all that's to say I fully realize why and how JS is useful... and that's actually why I disable most JS by default in uBlock Origin.

The problem isn't the existence of JS, it's the fact that massive tools like React become the hammer, and everything starts to look like a nail. There's no reason for the sites I am usually interested in visiting, which are either content hosting sites (no JS needed at all) or sites like my own (that could be enhanced with JS but still functional without it) to pull in so much code unrelated to the primary function of the site.