it's definitely less used nowadays, partially because vue/react take care about a lot of work themselves, but also partially because virtual DOMs and component

it's definitely less used nowadays, partially because vue/react take care about a lot of work themselves, but also partially because virtual DOMs and component scopes make it complicated to work with DOM directly. I often run into little eye-candy things that jQ could take care of efficiently in a few lines of code, but because of everything else you end up building Animation components and HOCs instead that are in the end much more complex...