broke all my banking websites and probably half the rest of the web when i tried it out unfortunately. the world is reliant on javascript for better or worse.

Whitelist your banking websites.

And I did, then some other critical website would come up that would be broken, then another, and another, and eventually I just got sick of dealing with the internet in a broken state and always having to mess with a config. At least with ublock origin I can block trackers and ads and still use websites that rely on js, which is the vast majority of them these days, and it works without me having to do hardly any fiddling at all.