Sometimes when I'm working with React or Ember on a large project, and have to do quite a bit of work for a small feature, I fondly remember the days of just banging out a two-liner with JQuery that would do the same thing.
I do think that data bindings in angular or the methods of working with mithriljs or react bring a lot to the table that you don't get from using jQuery, but I do respect what jquery gave us.
It was a cute article / nerdy fluff piece.
(I probably actually will move on at some point... when the dust settles and there are clearer options. And when I can go through some tutorials and have stuff all work. And when there isn't a huge huge library I don't need to to a few little things. In the meantime I proudly like jQuery and it works really well for the amount of JavaScript I need. Which amount incidentally is never on a server.).
"Doing it the [insert framework here] way"
Most frameworks try to change your beliefs about how and why you should do things, and they are differentiated by how different/better they are from then going through the "pain" (in their words) of using jQuery.
Personally I like the way Vue.js approaches things, it's like a nice mix of syntax readability and singe state/unidirectional data flow.