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Careful, if you show noscript/basic (x)html does a good enough job, you will get attacked by big tech shadow-paid hackers (or idiotic ones), that to force you to use their javascripted grotesquely massive and complex web-engines.

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I also dislike the skinner box that is today's web, but do you really think it's somebody's job to attack you for having your site be a document?

Well, maybe not a static document, but as soon as you have some basic HTML forms doing a good enough job, I would not be surprised to it gets attacked by big tech shadow-paid hackers (or idiotic ones) to push forward their massive and complex javascripted web engines which they have control over.

Look at whom the crime is a benefit in the end.

What? This can easily be averted by adding a captcha to the form (server-side validation so no JS needed) and/or some sort of rate limiter or firewall, e.g. blocking any IP address that sends too many requests too quickly.

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