Knowing that jQuery ends up calling those very same functions, only often after jumping through a bunch of hoops, doesnt make me consider it a shortcut. Between

Knowing that jQuery ends up calling those very same functions, only often after jumping through a bunch of hoops, doesnt make me consider it a shortcut. Between auto-complete and copy and paste, I prefer slightly more "work" up front, and then zero needless work at runtime, than a bit of "magic" that ends up doing needless work every single time it is run. But I have to admit, I don't care about compatibility beyond Firefox on the desktop, if I wrote stuff for a company on a deadline, or if I worked with other people on something, I would mind jQuery very little or not at all. But for my own stuff I make to spark joy, where I get to decide all of it, I want it as vanilla as I can get it.