> It’s important to understand that it’s often not the conscious choice of users to arrive at your site without JavaScript. We did some research and discovered that 0.9% GOV.UK visits are by people who don’t have JavaScript available and haven’t chosen to turn it off.
I've moved to "transient network faults" as my defence against creeping JS. What if the HTML gets to the user, then their mobile connection drops? The page should at least look vaguely sane.
> You should not assume the reason for designing a service that works without CSS or JavaScript is because a user chooses to switch these off.
> There are many situations when extra layers can fail to load or are filtered, for example:
https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/19/why-we-use-progres...
> It’s important to understand that it’s often not the conscious choice of users to arrive at your site without JavaScript. We did some research and discovered that 0.9% GOV.UK visits are by people who don’t have JavaScript available and haven’t chosen to turn it off.