I think if you understand the inner workings or jQuery, it's still nice to chain multiple operations together and keep your user code smaller than pure JS. It's

I think if you understand the inner workings or jQuery, it's still nice to chain multiple operations together and keep your user code smaller than pure JS. It's also helpful that so many devs have become familiar with jQuery over time, rather than bringing on someone that needs to parse all of your vanilla JS (everyone seems to have their own way of doing things).