jQuery emerged from the market and it's pretty close to what developers wanted to express. JS is design by a committee full of people afraid to come out as "no

jQuery emerged from the market and it's pretty close to what developers wanted to express. JS is design by a committee full of people afraid to come out as "not-as-kind" and completely detached from reality. True, doing some of the things which were half an hour on stack overflow or 1 line of jQuery became a couple of lines of vanilla JS but the API is still pretty awful. Think about XHR > fetch vs $.get or $.post I agree, I'll try to use vanilla JS and google something when I need to ship some code - but for hacking around I'll just bring in jQuery and write 1-liners at blazing speed.