You make a lot of good points. I agree, there's no going back. The websites we have today offer too much functionality to ever go back to the way things were.

You make a lot of good points. I agree, there's no going back. The websites we have today offer too much functionality to ever go back to the way things were. While I like the ability to turn off JavaScript on a page by page basis, and use the web mostly as a library, most people would be completely put off by a "dumb" Web.