That's exactly my thought as well. Even if you look at some of those sites like: http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ the main th

That's exactly my thought as well. Even if you look at some of those sites like: http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ the main thing they highlight to me is how incredibly superior jQuery's API still is for many basic operations. It's kind of sad 10 years later the standard DOM API is so clumsy and there is no significant update in sight that I'm aware of.