If you live somewhere with a decent internet connection and don't travel often you may have forgotten that lots of places still have slow or unreliable internet

If you live somewhere with a decent internet connection and don't travel often you may have forgotten that lots of places still have slow or unreliable internet connections. Most of those people probably have JavaScript enabled too, but every extra request required to use the site is a point of failure. I'll be the first to advocate requiring JavaScript when doing so significantly increases value, but for content sites please at least include the main content directly in the HTML.