How disappointing, the article is called "Frameworkless JavaScript", but the author uses jQuery for the application. Yeah, I get it, jQuery a library... File s

How disappointing, the article is called "Frameworkless JavaScript", but the author uses jQuery for the application. Yeah, I get it, jQuery a library... File size seems like the biggest concern, but really, how important is that on a dynamic page that needs to load exactly once? And using a CDN it might already be cached anyway. That being said, I also like clean, minimal JS code.