I think people are reading too much into the intent of this. "You Don't Need jQuery" is in no way the same as saying "Don't Use jQuery". jQuery is a convenient

I think people are reading too much into the intent of this. "You Don't Need jQuery" is in no way the same as saying "Don't Use jQuery". jQuery is a convenient abstraction on more verbose DOM APIs. Using it makes development quicker and easier. Here is an educational article demonstrating what those DOM APIs look like to many who may have opted to take the quicker & easier route of learning jQuery without learning DOM.