> I am not sure why so many people do not like JavaScript but it seems to work well.
"the dose makes the poison" springs to mind: some interactivity or XHR is often a win for UX, but it also opens up negligent actor's ability to completely torpedo a site for any number of silly reasons. Take the most common thing one wishes to use a web browser for: reading content. Clicking on a link and staring at a blank page because 85mb of JS is still loading, and when it does load it makes swooshing things that hijack the scroll behavior is very likely why so many people do not like JavaScript
"the dose makes the poison" springs to mind: some interactivity or XHR is often a win for UX, but it also opens up negligent actor's ability to completely torpedo a site for any number of silly reasons. Take the most common thing one wishes to use a web browser for: reading content. Clicking on a link and staring at a blank page because 85mb of JS is still loading, and when it does load it makes swooshing things that hijack the scroll behavior is very likely why so many people do not like JavaScript