Disabling JS on mobile is a godsend though. I keep JS disabled on my phone[1] most of the time and it's generally just a more pleasant experience. I don't even have a particularly slow phone (HTC One M8, I guess it's a couple years old now but it's held up well) but the speed improvement is very noticeable.

We may be crazy but we have our reasons.

1. The very nifty Lightning browser <https://github.com/anthonycr/Lightning-Browser> exposes a convenient setting for this; there's very little menu digging involved if I want to enable it.

Is he taking on new investors?

In Germany 33 non-conformist were also called backwards and conservative. The Web today is Germany 33 and js is the elephant in the room who makes life a little bit worse.