I'm a little sad to see that nowadays there's a strong sentiment of "just use the pre-packaged tool", whereas when jQuery was still in its infancy, there was a

I'm a little sad to see that nowadays there's a strong sentiment of "just use the pre-packaged tool", whereas when jQuery was still in its infancy, there was a lot of lively hacker-minded chatter on the down-and-dirty of getting things to be cross browser. It's as if there are now two "levels" of people - "regular developers" and "framework designers", and only the latter are really supposed to know about the nitty-gritty. The excitement of finding out about standard, cross-browser gems like insertAdjacentHtml is all but gone :( I get it that people are focusing more on the entrepreneurial side of things now, but I miss the banter of aspiring tinkerers.