I'm torn as jQuery allows dense code with it's query language, but at the same time it tends to produce brittle code that has high coupling and low cohesion, so

I'm torn as jQuery allows dense code with it's query language, but at the same time it tends to produce brittle code that has high coupling and low cohesion, so that is hard to maintain. I think the trade-off is that you opt for a more wholistic approach or framework that is more costly to bootstrap but easier to maintain, especially as complexity increases.