LOL. I remember saying almost exactly the same things and not long ago! It's not necessarily a matter of "tangled up" (although that happens also with size if

LOL. I remember saying almost exactly the same things and not long ago! It's not necessarily a matter of "tangled up" (although that happens also with size if one isn't careful). It's more a matter of very unwieldy to work with and a lot of cognitive overhead. The few "updating DOM" things turn into hundreds, the callbacks multiply, "what function was it that did this? What file was that in?", the bindings start tripping over each other, it quickly turns into another level of problem at size and when it gets to the point it does it's big enough to be real work to refactor. At the scale you are talking about sure, raw HTML, a handful of global functions doing this and that and a few arrays and objects holding data, no problem. If you have (or work with) something of a different scale using jQuery I'm pretty sure you'll see for yourself and come to the realization I have. There's a reason for the rise of these frameworks and it isn't all fancy hipster nonsense. Well not all of it anyway :)