Most of the web is about reading content, and this is where all points on the page shine.
I agree with basically everything on that page.
In fact, we built fully-fledged browser extensions to override website's choices in fonts, colors and whatnot (point 1).
We build extensions to kill js by default (point 2).
We increasingly disable plugins by default (point 3).
We have extensions to block advertising, including inline ones (point 4).
Frames are a thing of the past (point 5), although visual clutter still reigns in "web tabloids" (although we still patch the css via custom styles/extensions)
6) Web fonts have very often poor hinting and lower quality than the exact equivalent in the system. The difference between my locally installed Roboto font and the Woff version is insane. The worst part is that the google font loaders loads the woff version ANYWAY!
Web tablois will still chose random fonts based purely on the looks. Combined with poor hinting, this has prompted me to disable web fonts on my standard browsing profile.
Of course, nobody wants tracking, this seems quite widespread now, with browsers including the useless DNT header (point 7)
"No pagination" went even overboard with continuous loading pages, which many (including myself) hate (point 8).
What about the "facebook/linkedin" login that many websites/betas require to join, and that almost everybody hates? (point 9)
And when all you need to do is reading, you don't want over-the-top animations when you hover on this, dynamic loading that prevents pages to be saved to disk for later reading, and whatever webdesigners think "it's cool" nowdays, because in the end what matters most is the content.
The fact that we have "reader modes" in browsers now is pretty saddening. And it's all due to massive, abusive design using otherwise good browsers extensions.