I dislike JS, because I don't want to let random websites to run arbitrary code on my machine.

Most importantly, enabling JS makes it much easier to spy on users, so I automatically assume that the website tries to spy on my and feel attacked.

I agree it's not healthy, and I didn't care about privacy that much in the past. I guess this may be caused by my work experience.

There's no reason to require JavaScript to render rich text especially when it's an article about CSS prowess.

Most webpages that function as simple documents can be built without JS. If you build webpages, you probably have an intuition for what kind of functionality necessitates JS. When a webpage requires that users enable JS, then, when it doesn't seem like it should need it, that's a signal of either developer laziness or nefarious behind-the-scenes activity (tracking, etc.).

JavaScript is an RCE vulnerability. Browsers literally execute it as "run this malicious code in a vm, then nuke the whole thing from the orbit".

There are several reasons someone might prefer to use websites that work without JS:

- The page will load noticeably faster (and likely be faster in a number of other ways).

- The semantics are more predictable (buttons, links, scrolling, text selection, find-in-page, etc. all behave the same as on other websites).

- The page will work in Tor Browser's "maximum security" setting.

- The page is more likely to work better in screen readers or with other less-commonly used web browsing tools.

- The page is more likely to work in older browser versions.

- It used to be that a JS-free page had lighter CPU usage, though newer CSS features and browser setTimeout/setInterval throttling have changed the balance somewhat.

- The page does not require running untrusted/proprietary code on your computer (the browser sandbox is a small comfort).

The Web is a document format, it does not need a client side turing complete language. Granted, now-a-days people also use it to ship applications, and I have nothing against using JS for that, but for a document it is really dumb to require code execution in order to just view the document.