They've incorporated everything other than the convenience and succinctness of jQuery. And that's fine, they have different goals to jQuery, standards should be

They've incorporated everything other than the convenience and succinctness of jQuery. And that's fine, they have different goals to jQuery, standards should be more explicit in what functions do and how they behave etc. Maybe it's a good thing I can't do $('something').eq(0).addClass('foo') in ES without first checking the return type of document.querySelector before attempting to add a class to it, but it is convenient. Looking at stuff like http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ it's easy to see why there are lots of cases where jQuery just isn't needed anymore. But 10% of them still look very verbose without jQuery and when I'm working on a simple website the convenience of jQuery is worth it to me so I continue to use it where it helps.