> Oh no, what a pity, large chunks of bloated websites will go away. I’m sure we’ll all miss them greatly, they made such a great difference to our lives. /s

I don't even know how to answer this... You are proposing to partition the web into a past and future version where almost no site of commercial interest has any incentive to leave the old internet.

Do you seriously believe that a browser without javascript (not a "noscript" addon, just no javascript) could be successful in any way? or say, more than elinks?

> Also, we dropped flash pretty hard and fast, and I distinctly, distinctly remember a huge number of websites being entirely flash.

And some sites still requires it. It is one of the reason I still keep chrome on my computers