But you're missing the point that you could have spent the time you spent developing Glow on extending jQuery to do all of these things that you want Glow to do

But you're missing the point that you could have spent the time you spent developing Glow on extending jQuery to do all of these things that you want Glow to do. Then you would have the benefit of everything that jQuery does plus everything that Glow does... but going down separate development paths is not helping anyone at this point. Unless Glow is doing something nifty that jQuery is not other then supporting screen readers and older browsers.