Because JS-disabled clients are an edge case and a minimalist approach attempts to solve most cases with the least amount of code. Nevertheless, we will make our site work with JS disabled. Thanks!
That's a good reference article indeed. I remember that. Seems Chickenshit Minimalism is defined as "the illusion of simplicity backed by megabytes of cruft" — which is not in play on the article. But yeah... need to make that page work on non-JS browsers. Thanks!