jQuery is still much more pleasant to use than native methods when working with collections of DOM elements. If you do much DOM manipulation, you'll end up wri

jQuery is still much more pleasant to use than native methods when working with collections of DOM elements. If you do much DOM manipulation, you'll end up writing helpers that replicate aspects of jQuery to grease your workflow. The real issue is that trying to manage state by directly manipulating the DOM becomes a nightmare as the project grows, and newer frameworks can mostly take care of that for you. So jQuery is still wonderful at what it does, but there isn't much reason to be directly manipulating the DOM now that there are alternatives.