I agree that rolling new frameworks/libraries out for the glory only is a terrible thing but they generally don't do much harm since the truly atrocious project

I agree that rolling new frameworks/libraries out for the glory only is a terrible thing but they generally don't do much harm since the truly atrocious projects fade into oblivion. We can only hope at least one thing was learned from them. I do not consider jQuery restrictive and in fact it's liberating because it provides a core set of tools that are much more useful than the core tools provided by native JS. jQuery was born out of a need. As long as something is more useful than what it wraps I tend to not mind it. But wrapping things arbitrarily like HTML is just useless. I do see a stark difference between marrying independent frameworks that are proven and writing a brand new one that encompasses all the ideas of each.