The problem with jQuery is not so much jQuery itself, it's the architecture of sites/apps written with many jQuery plugins and no code organization. I wrote man

The problem with jQuery is not so much jQuery itself, it's the architecture of sites/apps written with many jQuery plugins and no code organization. I wrote many apps using simple JS modules (with browserify) using jQuery for DOM manipulation and the approach worked great. While I don't really use jQuery anymore, it's great for what it aims to do: DOM manipulation. The point is that exciting development experiences (in the bad way) are usually due to developers not really not knowing what they're doing. Picking your tools is part of that and no tool will, inherently, provide a bad development experience.