Comments by "Nick" (@NicodemusT) on "Attention Spoiled Developers" video.

The developer community have always been insufferable. Back in the day, they would swear up and down if you didn't gracefully handle JS being turned off, you were a bad developer. Today's equally gatekeeping developers wouldn't even know what to say to that concern, and think 7 forms of unit testing while never asking the user once what they want is "the way." So excuse me while I don't care at all what the developer community thinks.
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There were certainly edge cases and IT departments, but there are more browsers without javascript today than there ever were. I mentioned this in another reply, but it was removed for some reason – there are a number of low cost devices in poor countries that only read text. The only way to overcome a React SPA is to literally rely on a intermediary device that community centres and villages have to share to take screenshots of the website, so that it can be OCR'd and read that way.
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@mattymattffs There are actually more browsers without javascript now than there ever was. Netscape Navigator/Internet Explorer dominated the late 90s and early 2000s, with Opera, Lynx and a few others taking the lower margins. These all had JS (with exception to text browsers), unless otherwise disabled for whatever reason. Today, most screen readers in poor countries are text only, to the point where they often need a intermediary device to properly snapshot a page, and OCR the text to the cheaper devices. So it's still very relevant.
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