Avoiding direct DOM manipulation is a benefit in almost any case. Virtual DOM is now at the root of most popular UI frameworks libraries, including Vuejs and An

Avoiding direct DOM manipulation is a benefit in almost any case. Virtual DOM is now at the root of most popular UI frameworks libraries, including Vuejs and Angular, also less popular WASM ones like Blazor(C#) or Percy (Rust). I do remember writing complex JQuery components. React felt like a liberation for me...