[ronaldx]

The problem is not the minority you are thinking of: most of that minority can enable JavaScript if it's genuinely required.

The problem is people on poor or mobile connections - the majority - who have to suffer that little bit longer to wait for the blocking JavaScript to load and then burn down their limited battery for the sake of parallax scrolling or a marginally prettier icon or button on the static text site they are trying to read.

JavaScript-requiring designers do hate proper user experience.