I can't answer that, but I'll say that I still include it in most projects without a second thought. Maybe I'm not aware of some existing superior replacement,

I can't answer that, but I'll say that I still include it in most projects without a second thought. Maybe I'm not aware of some existing superior replacement, but since I don't care much for the popular modern JS frameworks JQuery + vanilla JS is still my goto choice. Following good coding principles, I haven't yet had any project grow to be too messy, but maybe I'm just not working on extremely complex front-ends.