Well, I would argue that the main purpose of jQuery was to help cover all the strange DOM edge cases of the browsers of that time. In that case, it really isn't

Well, I would argue that the main purpose of jQuery was to help cover all the strange DOM edge cases of the browsers of that time. In that case, it really isn't needed anymore as most browsers behave the same on like 90% of the things now. (It's just that people used it as if it was a Framework, not a library which caused a bunch of problems.) I am with you that if I'm doing something lightweight I don't use any of the new fancy JS frameworks, I just write vanilla JS.