jQuery plugins have come to my rescue many times in tight production deadlines. The options out there, and generosity of developers to give away and keep update

jQuery plugins have come to my rescue many times in tight production deadlines. The options out there, and generosity of developers to give away and keep updated in response to demands, is first class. jQuery by itself is something which is just nice to know is there, for quick DOM manipulation in the standard way you know how, and other devs know how. Hassle-free and accessible. As a jQuery fan I'm glad there's more tools and methods out there, however. I'm keen on VueJS myself but not yet confident. I'll be avoiding React and Angular because to me they feel like using an industrial lathe when all you need is a Dremel. Performance crumbling is still more likely to be caused not by choice of JS library, but shoving too much content down the throat of users because you as developer couldn't say no, or when you advised against it were ignored.