What is jQuery though? From the author's standpoint, it was a library built to smooth out the edges of bad browser support. This is a problem that doesn't exist

What is jQuery though? From the author's standpoint, it was a library built to smooth out the edges of bad browser support. This is a problem that doesn't exist as much these days. If you're looking for a way to select one or more DOM nodes and manipulate or jack content into it/them, browsers already provide an easy way to do that now days. The other abstractions it provides ($.get/$.getJson, $.each) have no reason to exist anymore. What's worse, the entire promise-like ability in jQuery is incorrect. (but has to be maintained for backward compatibility) So we're left with what? The $? One could simply do `const $ = document.querySelectorAll;` and get quite a bit of the functionality (I wouldn't really recommend this as it's not a drop-in replacement) Now if we mean the entire jQuery ecosystem. Please.... NO! Tons of bloated non-performant libraries for things like carousels... when a simple `overflow: scroll` could have worked. It was such a nightmare to deal with on mobile devices!