I find that alot of times, developers want to use Libraries as a crutch for lack of knowledge in javascript, jquery, HTML and CSS. So they end up doing hacky t

I find that alot of times, developers want to use Libraries as a crutch for lack of knowledge in javascript, jquery, HTML and CSS. So they end up doing hacky things and using heavy weight libraries and plugins for things that only require a few extra lines of code. Furthermore, many developers are weighing the merits of their libraries based on how cool and recent they are, rather than it's capabilities - this is exacerbated by their lack of knowledge of JS/jQuery because they don't realize how easy it would be to do it in basic JS/jquery.