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> The web is almost unusable without that setting enabled.

The web (i.e., the web of hypertext documents linked together) is perfectly usable with JavaScript disabled; what doesn't work are all the single-page apps which hijack the web's infrastructure in order to break it. This is somewhat like a medicine which does not interfere with the operation of human cells but which disrupts the replication of viruses.




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