From my understanding other frameworks like Ember rely heavily on jQuery, unfortunately i havent really worked with them so i dont know what that means for plug

From my understanding other frameworks like Ember rely heavily on jQuery, unfortunately i havent really worked with them so i dont know what that means for plugins. We can not reuse angular directives in Ember/Backbone/Meteor so it doesnt make sense to spend the effort to reimplment bigger plugins/libraries imo. It would actually be the other way round, you build your app in angular and for some specific view related code you use a proven and stable jQuery plugin, which imo still makes sense. Furthermore you are being hyberbolic, jQ wasnt even released in 2005. In reality, when i have a client project with tight deadlines to finish and i need drag and drop functionality (as an example), i have little motivation to rewrite that just to avoid a jquery plugin that does the same thing and is much more mature.