Hi m2,
If we would take the analogy a tiny bit further and I did not propagate the use of NS inside a browser but a safety belt in a car. And you, m2, came here and said well I want to go onto the road in a car without safety belts, because this makes my life miserable ..life is fast going these days and the majority don't have the time and the will to learn to use a safety belt, it is boring and time consuming and quite frankly, ....etc.
I don't know really but everybody would say the man that want to take the ride without a safety belt has the wrong arguments and moreover he will be fined (in our case will get malware onto his computer), and I can think of a whole lot of other similar situations where we can make similar analogies - sex and precautionary measures (well back up mechanisms won't do you much good there) etc. etc., so I understand more than you think I do,
polonus
Sorry but that is a stupid analogy, you cannot compare cars or sex to computers. Unsafe sex and being without a seatbelt can get you injured/sick and in worst case scenario killed. Computers cannot get you killed, worst case scenario you loose all your data and that is not the same as being involved in a serious car accident or geting aids/hiv or some other stupid disease.
1. M2 has hit on my main resistance to using NS which is that I would have to use a browser that I don't care for-FF.
2. Aside from the HIPS like annoyances NS would cause and which I would not enjoy, I just don't like FF at all in the first place.
1. Well, it sure is up to you, what to use. Nevertheless, we still can (and also should) advice the use of NoScript to all the users, who run Firefox...!! 
2. There's no annoyance, at all. Set it up, run it. Allow the pages you trust, all others get blocked without nagging. Most scripts on the sites out there are only for statistics, tracking or adds...! So why run them..??
asyn
I see allow the pages you trust huh ?
And just how sure can you be that you can trust them ? You really can't can you since all pages can get hacked don't they ?
And ads don't bother most of us, neither do statistics. Infact i and i am sure alot of users sometimes stumble upon an advertisement for a product that we like, maybe even get a special discount because we clicked on that ad banner and that is not bad. I agree though that pop-up windows can be annoying but most modern browsers can block those easily. No need for a special program to do that. And as far as online banking is concerned, if you have any sense at all you just won't use it and will go to the bank personally. It's hard even to trust banks themsleves these days yet alone their online banking pages.
I use NoScript.
And trust me when I say, I am about as far from being able to read code as anyone you would meet, on or off-line.
I don't need to understand the code it blocks, I just allow the bare minimum to get a sites features working. (1-3 scripts, typically)
It was obtrusive at first, but now I only interact with it a couple times per day, on average.
(Being currently unemployed, "a day" meaning ~12 hours online)
Can't argue with the backup statement, though. That should always be #1 priority, imo.
3 out of 4 PC/human relationships do not make the persons life easier, from what I have seen.
But that is not the computers fault. 
Oh i see, allow 1-3 scripts that you don't really understand what they do ? lol doesn't that defeat the purpose of NS since 1 of those scripts could actually be something nasty ? Isn't that the same as not using NS ?
