[Fogest]

I had to suffer with many dinosaurs in a University I worked at, and they did in fact do pretty much everything you mentioned. Was a pain in the ass to upgrade/improve sites while trying to make sure these sites could operate without JavaScript. It was such a waste of resources just for a few people who refused to learn new things. The old way wasn't really faster, they just refused to learn the new way.

One of them even was browsing many webpages using a command line based browser rather than just using something like Firefox.

[sureglymop]

I use uBlock Origin with everything blocked by default. Most websites actually load fine. For those that don't, I manually whitelist just the scripts they need and then press the lock to remember that for the next time I visit that website.

As a non dinosaur, It's not actually hard nor tedious to not use JavaScript everywhere and I would recommend it. I think the problem in your situation may have been that those people actively made their problem your problem.