Disabling Javascript has singlehandedly fixed several annoyances I had, even with ad blocking. No more tabs draining my battery (ok, css animations are still a problem), no more things jumping around, no more page popups, no more Intercom chat windows from people eager to talk to me, no more 3rd party crap Javascript tracking me (ublock prevented them already, but it's nice to know there's no way they can bypass adblock). Things load and render fast.

Some pages still require Javascript, and SSO is usually a pain, but for those cases I have a Chrome profile with Javascript enabled and a simple Hammerspoon script that launches that profile in incognito mode for the url I have on my clipboard.

Oh, and Gmail basic html mode is so snappy!

It seems like every HN thread about a "web annoyance" ends up with a comment extolling the virtues of NoScript. I don't surf the web without it!

Yes, that's also the way I browse the web since a few years. Otherwise it's a pain to use the web today.