We are underselling jquery a little bit. The browsers adopted jquery’s contribution of creating one of the most intuitive ways to deal with DOM/selection. It’s

We are underselling jquery a little bit. The browsers adopted jquery’s contribution of creating one of the most intuitive ways to deal with DOM/selection. It’s similar to how JSX is probably the most intuitive solution for templating/wiring/composing at the moment, also similar to how two-way binding was incredibly intuitive. Browsers got to this point because jquery pushed for it.