If your argument is that the method names in DOM should be shorter, then sure, I agree. It seemed to me you were arguing for something else. jQuery selectors a

If your argument is that the method names in DOM should be shorter, then sure, I agree. It seemed to me you were arguing for something else. jQuery selectors are quite a bit different from querySelectorAll, among other things, they don't return native DOM objects, but rather jQuery objects, which have bizarre and unnecessary re-implementations of things (like .each) that have not been necessary in modern JS/DOM for about ten years now, so it's not so easy as "just use jQuery, but standardize it". If your argument was that the standardization process should have considered jQuery and other prior art, and taken good ideas from it, then of course that's exactly what happened.