I thought the whole point was to be able to access a DOM element hierarchy as an object hierarchy? My point is that this convenience comes at a cost, and so I w

I thought the whole point was to be able to access a DOM element hierarchy as an object hierarchy? My point is that this convenience comes at a cost, and so I would also not use jQuery in that way. Conservative targeting of selectors negates the very cool benefits of this library, at least for my use.