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Loved it then love it now. The fact that it was most loved library on Stackoverflow should say something about the relentless simplicity of jQuery.

Iirc jquery was also the most hated just under drupal

What is simpler about jQuery than modern vanilla JS?

Personally. Primarily using all the great battle tested tools and widgets out there that are built using JQuery.

Terse and composable/fluent API. You don’t have that on plain DOM methods.