I know this is a famous meme, but why, in response, does no one mention that sizzle, the selector engine in jQuery is based on regexes? (https://github.com/jque

I know this is a famous meme, but why, in response, does no one mention that sizzle, the selector engine in jQuery is based on regexes? (https://github.com/jquery/sizzle/blob/master/src/sizzle.js https://github.com/jquery/sizzle/blob/master/src/sizzle.js) It suggests to me a very large proportion of DOM parsing code in existence uses regexes.