Me using noscript doesn't make a dent in the usage patterns of the public at large and it doesn't inform others that there is a better way to browse.

Without any decent weight behind it, there would be no incentive for people to build their software to actually respect the user and they would continue serving a broken application.

Much like browsers slowly boiling site owners by displaying sites as insecure if they don't have any encryption, a similar effort could be made to stop websites handing visitors around like the town bicycle.

Yes, “shaming” would be a relatively easy improvement too. Browsers should feel free to display big, red, scary-looking logos like “this page load has consumed an unusually-large portion of data/battery/whatever”.