The primary benefit is that the "NoScript crowd" includes a lot of people with disabilities who do not belong to it by choice, but because screen readers and ot

The primary benefit is that the "NoScript crowd" includes a lot of people with disabilities who do not belong to it by choice, but because screen readers and other assistive technologies generally do not get along well with Javascript. Mind you, I understand that making a website accessible is not a trivial task and that the expense may indeed be hard to justify for a given project; but the benefits are anything but unclear.