Jquery did two things well: it provided a terse, sane syntax for many common tasks, and it provided robust cross browser support. Modern browsers have partiall

Jquery did two things well: it provided a terse, sane syntax for many common tasks, and it provided robust cross browser support. Modern browsers have partially solved both these issues. (The former with .querySelector() and the latter with the deprecation of MSIE 6/7/8.)