I dislike JavaScript being gratuitously required, because it just generally makes things worse—slower to load, and less reliable. I occasionally complain about it, mostly in the places where there’s just no conceivable reason why it should have been done that way, because I do understand pragmatism.

I have also made and worked on multiple web apps where rich reload-free interaction is expected. In some cases, it has not been practical to support JavaScript-free operation at all, but in almost all cases where JavaScript-free operation has been feasible, I have provided at the very least partially-degraded operation—certainly on all green-field development.

A lot of the places where GitLab requires JavaScript are quite unnecessary, and should probably not have been done client-side at all in the first place, though I’d settle for server-side rendering with rehydration.