It seems to me, many web developers today don't even realize, that creating features without js and enriching the experience from that baseline, not only enhances performance and accessibility, but in the end is often not more work and might even lead to cleaner, leaner code. I guess in the end it just comes down to which tools one learned first and based on that which approach one takes to solve the problem at hand.

I can only encourage everyone that thinks js is the catch-all solution to dive a bit deeper into html&css and try out alternate solutions. It's worth it for the knowledge gain in itself but offers many other benefits.