One of the senior devs at a place I worked at built his own react-like component system using jQuery and they had a couple apps foundationally upon it. I also w

One of the senior devs at a place I worked at built his own react-like component system using jQuery and they had a couple apps foundationally upon it. I also wound up on a project to help out with a pretty recent greenfield Angular SPA. Turned out actually they just used the router from angular and ejected into jQuery for nearly all component/dom manipulation. Of course everyone else was rolling with it like it was cool or no big deal. PMs were happy with the team's velocity. Times like that make me highly qustion my career choices; especially when their pay scale is similar.