Yes, it's strange. Progressive enhancement was the idea that you throw together a simple, working site with HTML and POST forms, then once it's working you can

Yes, it's strange. Progressive enhancement was the idea that you throw together a simple, working site with HTML and POST forms, then once it's working you can burn as much time as you like adding fanciful doodads with CSS, Javascript, etc. Now it's apparently easier to build a fanciful doodad than it is to write a string of text.