Although this shouldn't detract from the author's specific situation and choice, I think a big share of those using jQuery are those who are also using a develo

Although this shouldn't detract from the author's specific situation and choice, I think a big share of those using jQuery are those who are also using a development framework that is dependent upon it ==> e.g., Twitter Bootstrap (ver 5 and below). That could be an interesting project -- a drop in replacement for TBS' jQuery dependency.