The biggest boon of JQuery back in the day was that it abstracted over all the browser variances, which were far more numerous at the time. Also many APIs simp

The biggest boon of JQuery back in the day was that it abstracted over all the browser variances, which were far more numerous at the time. Also many APIs simply didn’t exist(e.g. querySelector). Now that browsers are much mor standards compliant and there are much better APIs it feels like the rationale for jQuery has shrunken to pretty much zero