I have seen this type of reasoning before in HN comments but from a user's perspective it does not make sense. Imagine every user is sending a maximum amount of information, which we can see keeps increasing over time, via HTTP headers (including cookies), browser capabilities, hardware capabilities, etc. This "run with the herd" reasoning seems to suggest the best way to avoid fingerprinting is to send the maximum amount of information, "like everyone else". That only results in ever more information being sent to the online advertising industry. The probability they can distinguish one user fingerprint from another goes up as the amount of information sent increases. The objective of the online advertising services company is to gather as much information as possible from users.

The objective for the user should be to send as little information as possible. If a fingerprint shows the user is not running JS and is providing only a very minimal, generic set of information, how much value is there is trying to serve ads to that user. Users who want better privacy should be trying to reduce the amount of information they send. Maybe the first movers in that effort are "fingerprinted" as being privacy-conscious, tech-savvy, etc. That is probably going to result in less ads served to them, not more. Eventually, when most users, "the herd", is sending the minimal amount of information, the fingerprints all look similar.

Think it through. Advertisers do not care about users who will not indiscriminantly run JS. They go for the low-hanging fruit.

You're just added to a (very large pool) of people who browse with JS turned off. Turning JS off as a default is a common thing.