It has.

The NoScript approach is dumb because it easily supports temporary and permanent white-listing of sites, which is agreeable to many (but still problematic depending on what your risk profile).

With NoScript’s current approach, you get ruined when your JavaScript-free-optimized starts sending you nasty JavaScript.

JavaScript used to be disabled by default but too many users were complaining about pages not working. It's not very useful if you're a CFO trying to leak financial documents to a journalist but the website won't work.

Tech-literate people use JavaScript.enabled=false in about:config.