What's with the hate against simple buttons with onclick?

Just curious: why are page buttons designed to only "submit a page or redirect to a URL"? I wanted a button that simply opens a popup and it seems to require ridiculous workarounds. You ApEx insiders: why?

Hello,
You can simply call your Javascript via a URL location like -
javascript:foo();John.
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