This is so true. jQuery is really a fantastic library, but it gets dragged in the mud because of the applications of it. What people forget is that the adoption

This is so true. jQuery is really a fantastic library, but it gets dragged in the mud because of the applications of it. What people forget is that the adoption of SPA's preceded the widespread use of modern SPA-centric frameworks that we use today (duh). jQuery was the defacto standard library for web development before this transition, and naturally devs crowbarred together SPA behemoths using it. It turns out that it was not the ideal tool for that job, but it WAS (and still is) the perfect tool for the kind of lightweight interactivity that it was originally designed for. Sorry for repeating your point in so many words, but the hate towards jQuery really gets me down.