We'll be working on moving on from jQuery. When we finally decided to commit to it, it was too late in the v4 alpha process to really spend significant time doing it. We'll be piece-meal updating our plugins to drop it.

Lots of folks like to shit on jQuery these days, but it changed JS forever. We're still using it while focusing on other things, and you can easily swap it out for something else or use a ported version of our JS for React, Angular, etc.

In short, yes, and we'll get there in time <3.