The boldfaced text in your first paragraph still holds true, at least I hope so :-)

The disdain of mandatory Javascript may at least partially also stem from the knowledge that so called "text browsers" exist. I don't use lynx regularly, but just to prove it, I posted this comment with it. BTW a former colleague once said "if you can't get information from a web page with it, it doesn't contain any." I'm willing to concur still today.