[endisneigh]

You can still do all of these things. JavaScript isn’t the problem.

Your issue is more that there’s no longer any standardization of the web and the surface area to which sites are designed have increased drastically.

One could still make a site today that can do everything you’re describing

[uniqueuid]

I invite you to try and do any of these things and discover how hard, prohibitively hard they are.

[endisneigh]

It’s not - a plain text site example, does all of these automatically

[uniqueuid]

Sorry, you're right of course. But anything like a SPA where javascript populates and/or changes the DOM - that's not accessible to a plain client without rendering engine.

[endisneigh]

Sure, but the issue isn’t JavaScript, the issue is that people are building their websites as web apps and when it isn’t necessary.

Java applets and flash had the same issues.