You are not wrong. I assume the author of the blog post just wanted to optimize the current situation, not completely change how these features work (which wou

You are not wrong. I assume the author of the blog post just wanted to optimize the current situation, not completely change how these features work (which would most probably be a much more elaborate change). Same for dropping jQuery - that will probably be a few weeks or months of work in a codebase the size of Wikipedia/Mediawiki.