jQuery used to be (necessarily) bloated because it needed to support so many poorly-behaving browsers. Now that these browsers are no longer relevant and suppo

jQuery used to be (necessarily) bloated because it needed to support so many poorly-behaving browsers. Now that these browsers are no longer relevant and support has been removed from jQuery, what is the performance hit, if any for using jQuery as opposed to vanilla JS? I agree with many, I find the jQuery syntax to often be better than the alternative.