[vmception]

nothing about web for the last decade has been about no-JS HTML

its an option but doesn't leave you anything to contribute. the web is fragmented most of the toolchain is for simplifying deployment into that fragmented place without caring that it is fragmented. so not really nuts when everything already takes care of it for you. you can stick with no-JS HTML cached on an edge node just as well, or not cached if you expect low traffic, its whatever.

[kixiQu]

"everything already takes care of it for you" is fine if you're willing to have a dependency on "everything". It's "whatever" relative to how much the people who load your page care about bandwidth.