Huh, I'd given up on disabling JS because reddit required it to reply to posts, and I'd assumed HN does too. Turns out HN doesn't. Thanks for providing the impetus to check (I'd expected to say something like "well the site doesn't work without JS, so I guess they didn't stick around" but wanted to check first), I deleted my reddit account a while ago and it turns out that was the only thing keeping me tied to JS.

I really am not a fan of JS for all of the reasons that have been retread a million times over the years, but honestly the war is long lost and I don't really see the need to annoy people about it anymore.