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It used to be that a significant portion of that 1% (and those that also turned off CSS) were from those leveraging screenreaders some years back; with the uptake of ARIA and better screenreaders, not so much the case anymore.

So there was once a definite use case for supporting them in a B2C context, at least. You still see it in .edu/.gov/.mil quite a bit as a requirement (Sec 508, et al).

That is sad in a way. I expected the number to be much higher. I am interested in to know why the majority does not use Javascript blockers.

Here is a source for the 1%: https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2013/10/21/how-many-people-are-missi...

There's a lot more people than 1% that sometimes have javascript disabled:

EVERYONE has javascript disabled until the js payload is downloaded. Which is extremely important on high-latency or slow network connections.

The 1% includes a lot of crawlers, although not Google's.