Care more about your users: use less javascript

Care about your viewers, don't make a 6 minute video to convey a two sentence message (that is probably wrong)...

agreed for websites, they don't need any JS (css-only dropdown with :hover/:focus-within, modal with :target, collapsed content with <details>, etc..)

for a more complex web-app/dashboard it's a bit harder to avoid JS

What’s the difference between a website and a web app?

Does it need AJAX to do its job?

A blog does not. An interactive chat application does.

Trust me, I REALLY do not want most of the features that people trying to shove on me with JavaScript. Continuous scrolling is a wonderful example. My experience of continuous scrolling is that I can't find where I saw something with a search, because the text literally is not there to be found. I also have no idea how far I really have to go. And there is a good chance that the person who implemented it will fail to create proper URLs.

In general when I see people recreating browser features (like display layout) using JavaScript, they do a strictly worse job of it than what is already built in to the browser. Most JavaScript therefore makes my life worse.

But there are things that can be done which are not possible any other ways. Interactive games, live chats, the scrolling in Google Maps and so on. They can be great. But far too often, they aren't. :-(

Continuous scrolling doesn't belong in a blog if you want the blog to be readable.

Those fancy CSS-only are often awful for accessibility.

Care about all your users: use what you need to use.

:focus-within is the fix for accessibility https://css-tricks.com/solved-with-css-dropdown-menus/