[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.