I have a completely different experience from you. As I'm reading this on my phone, most of the website related experience is better without JavaScript.

I also had in the past legally blind co-workers that could barely use a browser, so they had their own problems with JavaScript overriding defaults.

By the look of it: if JavaScript proponents designed car doors, there would only be remote unlocking and no physical key.

It's just bad engineering lately beign promoted as 'the default way to build webpages'.