To be honest it doesn't surprise me hugely. Whilst jQuery is hardly the best choice these days the simple fact is that such a ridiculous amount of libraries and

To be honest it doesn't surprise me hugely. Whilst jQuery is hardly the best choice these days the simple fact is that such a ridiculous amount of libraries and plugins use it that it's sort of hard to avoid it. Don't get me wrong - I completely understand why you wouldn't want to use it if you can help it, but honestly, for many uses it's still not a bad choice in my honest opinion.