Browsh does some js, and felinks is an actively maintained fork of elinks with some js support as well.

Elinks is the only one close, but last I tried it there were still issues

Terrible suggestion.

From [1]

"On 17 March 2017, OpenBSD removed ELinks from its ports tree, citing concerns with security issues and lack of responsiveness from the developers.[5]"

Last stable is from 2009. Last development release 2012. Elinks is dead. Realize it uses an old version of Spidermonkey (JS). Elinks should not be used in a production environment, period.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinks

links, on the other hand, is current. (Works on Windows, too.)

I don't think there's a single reason to use a text-based browser in a production environment.

browsing through SSH

Not just browsing (the web) - the idea of an HTML-based application UI can be extended to the text mode instead of getting stuck with the choice between a GUI and a command-line (or a custom curses-based) interface. (Imagine VSCode running in a terminal!)

I think you're perfectly able to understand what I meant there: anything other than research purpose in an isolated environment e.g. sandbox.

edbrowse has minimal js support thru duktape.

w3m hasn't, thank goodness.

some find that as a perk.