> I've run sans JS as default almost since its inception in the Netscape days and I've very little difficulty without it.

I guess you use the web in quite a limited manner? (Or use that other browser quite a lot...?).

I've tried no JS various times over the years and always end up constantly whitelisting sites. It's even worse in 2026 and gets worse each year.

Banking, insurance, webmail, groceries, eBay, CAPTCHAs... not to mention what feels like 50% of the web that is behind either Cloudflare or similar, which almost always require Javascript.