The problem I have is that 99% of my web use is the web as an interactive document - news and articles in particular - but those web sites still load an absolute ton of code.
Yeah, I'm certainly on board with that: vast amounts of ad-related assets and tracking code need to become a thing of the past. Still, for that I have uBlock, and I'm increasingly avoiding the worst offenders on that front anyway.
Still, sites I use on a regular basis that benefit from JS: GitHub (most evident with real-time updates to projects, issues, PRs); Office365; GMail, Google Drive, Google Analytics, Google Docs, the Adsense and Webmaster portals, and - of course - YouTube; Clubhouse (project management, heavier than Trello, lighter than JIRA); Azure management portal; pipeline apps such as TeamCity and Octopus Deploy.
Yeah, no dispute from me on that count, there are a lot of valid uses.
I am getting sick of what I presume is coin-mining code. I was reading an article about keyboards on some site the other day and after a few seconds my laptop started to sound like an aircraft taking off.
