This is how it always goes. JQuery was a response to browsers having poor standardization. Then it became a larger and larger ecosystem, and the code owners sta

This is how it always goes. JQuery was a response to browsers having poor standardization. Then it became a larger and larger ecosystem, and the code owners started getting megalomaniacal (I'm sorry, "live" is deprecated, please us the function "on" which does the exact same thing, we just liked the name better, thank you for complying). It became an ecosystem. Every 3rd party library was designed to integrate with JQuery. Soon there was JQuery UI, a UI library for adding modal dialogs and tooltips. And then someone realized that browsers had long since reached standards parity, and javascript engines were getting really fast, and re-rendering the DOM was GPU-accelerated, and we just needed a simple little library. And Angular and React were born (and Ember but we don't speak of satan in this house). React feels like it's following the exact same trajectory. It was created out of necessity, it was the best framework for a given point in time, but it's being stretched to handle the changing landscape, and it's feeling very kludgey. I expect that soon, very soon, someone will release the new paradigm. Probably just as soon as WASM is able to manipulate the DOM without JS hacks, which has been on the roadmap since before there was a road.