Yup. And jQuery, awesome as it was, wasn't designed to address the state issue. But it was the best DOM abstraction, so that was the backbone (no pun intended)

Yup. And jQuery, awesome as it was, wasn't designed to address the state issue. But it was the best DOM abstraction, so that was the backbone (no pun intended) for many pre-framework applications. It was a spaghetti nightmare.