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It's everywhere, and for no good reason. I've yet to find a Lemmy instance that will work without JavaScript enabled.
There is a good reason for it, and that's saving money. Computation on the user's device is free, doing it on the server/cloud costs money.
Serving static files that's cached in the browser, and providing a thin API layer is cheaper to host and might be worth it on the long run.
I'd support a JS free front end. Thankfully it wouldn't even be hard to do, and you could even use a desktop client so you don't even need anything but the API
Mlmym is server rendered I think