Kind of funny to say that on a text-only JS-free site that seems to be alive and well, linking to an article on an old-school mailing list archive site. :)
Oh, certainly. I just can resonate with the sentiment that these sites aren't the majority.
Even this site, honestly, is less than easy to deal with on a recurring basis. (Consider, hard to remember which was the top story three days ago at noon.) Specifically, sometimes I lose a story because I refresh and something plummeted off the page. Hard to have any idea how far to "scroll back" to see it.