Counterpoint: Twitter went "down" for five hours about five months back because someone typo'd true in the blob of javascript it serves up. If your site still

Counterpoint: Twitter went "down" for five hours about five months back because someone typo'd true in the blob of javascript it serves up. If your site still works without javascript, at least something will work if a bug slips through to production. (I agree with you for the most part; it's just when even page navigation breaks it can get more than mildly annoying.)