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Maybe you misread or misunderstood (although maybe it makes no difference to you), but the specific issue is: the FSF won't link to the bug tracker (not can't) because of proprietary Javascript. The FSF has no absolute rejection of JS, they just are purist about the JS being free software.

And it wasn't a personal post by an "FSF guy", it's the stance of the whole FSF organization.

Yes, the battle is lost. Fighting an effectively lost battle isn't necessarily nuts, but criticizing it is quite understandable.