20 years after the term "progressive enhancement" was first used in a tech talk[0]. People really ought to have received the message by now: javascript as a client-side feature is a way to enhance a website rather than to build its basic functionality.

0: https://web.archive.org/web/20141108064903/http://hesketh.co...

> javascript as a client-side feature is a way to enhance a website rather than to build its basic functionality.

And who decided that, exactly?

The free market. Much as I miss static HTML, the people like widgets.

The Free Market™ has very much decided it doesn't care whether a website is accessible with JavaScript disabled.

That is not how anyone wants to interact with the modern web.