I’m not sure if it affects what you’re saying, but it seems like you’re looking at the human view. Bots see different markup.
If you have curl installed, this snippet will show what Google sees:
curl -s https://howtodiscuss.com/t/how-tall-is-ryan-trahan/194876 > output.html
There won’t be <noscript> elements in the bot view. I think that noscript content will only show when using a text browser like lynx or disabling JS completely in a regular browser.