just the first stage of 'I hate JS because it's cool to hate JS'
second stage is 'OMFG this website doesn't work for me. How could developer not think about my entitled ass and not spend 2x time to make it work without JS?'
It's the only reasonable response to the user-hostile dumpster fire that is the current web. Javascript has made the web better in a small handful of ways, and made the web significantly worse in every other way.