Last time it came up on Hacker News, it's because a large amount of people apparently believe that all sites should run without Javascript. I was told that as a web developer that I should "stop trying".

It tends to be a classic case of blaming the tools for the actions of the people using them.

I was only doing so momentarily as a part of debugging the mobile issue. I'm fully aware that most people (intend to) run javascript most of the time, but I also think it's preferable that content doesn't introduce an unnecessary dependency on javascript. I haven't investigated this case in enough depth to determine if it's necessary or not, but the end result leads me to believe it shouldn't be.

Sometimes it's not intentional JS blocking. I run adblock and ghostery and by blocking 3rd party scripts some crucial part of a site just break also.

For example, people track link clicks in a web app and they do it with Google analytics. If not handled correctly, it will break all the navigation on a page.