There is some really good points here. However, i feel a lot of these 'You might not need...' articles are often a straw man response to the idea that developer

There is some really good points here. However, i feel a lot of these 'You might not need...' articles are often a straw man response to the idea that developers only use libraries because they are easier to code, not because (some of them) solve cross-browser issues or provide better performance, offer features that there isn't a 1:1 native method for etc.