If you want to build a moderately complex interactive experience that doesn’t suffer from roundtrip latency on every single interaction, you need to recreate th

If you want to build a moderately complex interactive experience that doesn’t suffer from roundtrip latency on every single interaction, you need to recreate the interactive parts of DOM in JavaScript anyway (ignore wasm), else you need to do imperative updates which quickly become a nightmare. jQuery-oriented development is a classic for sure, doesn’t mean people want to go back to it.