JS from a user's viewpoint
This is Hashnode, a community for developers. We are here, among other developers, so our view of the world might become a little bit biased. That's why, here's some food for thought, and I want to hear your voices as an answer to these users' comments:
It's 2019. I have little interest in using a website that doesn't fetch without a full page reload. JS is necessary full stop.
I find that sites that rely on JS for updates often end up sucking up too much memory and slowing the browser down, so I rely on explicit full page reloads to clean up the memory footprint.