“Try running NoScript in strict mode, and you’ll soon find that most websites just don’t work.”
This is not quite true. While it has a mild learning curve, just one or two of the individual 20 scripts like the JS can be temporarily allowed to make the site function while it still blocks all the rest that are unneeded. NoScript is the very best tool available but you can’t be too lazy to use it as it was designed to be used. All it takes is a little brain effort.
Been using NoScript for years. I understand the intricacies and complexities of it, for sure. I’ve even grown to dismiss the clumsy, often unusable, display of many websites. However, newer solutions such as uBlock Origin are fast becoming the standard where NoScript falls behind since the NS folks are deign to create an extension for Chromium-based browsers while uBlock is running laps around NS in the development department.