I totally agree and I exposed my use-case - really simple interfaces augmented by Javascript and served to mobile phones, so JQuery was basically unneeded, taki

I totally agree and I exposed my use-case - really simple interfaces augmented by Javascript and served to mobile phones, so JQuery was basically unneeded, taking it out improved latency and thus it improved conversions. But of course, most people don't measure and most people need the features in JQuery to work reliably and to behave well cross-browser, in which case 30 Kb cached by a CDN is a steal.