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> Every problem jQuery solved has been standardized into native javascript

Some problems, sure. Every problem? I think that's a stretch. Jquery still has it's applicability and can in some cases lead to simpler code.

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Like what? The main purpose of jQuery was to have a unified API for dealing with the issue of every browser having their own quirky implementation of the web standard. All of those are gone today and we now have a pretty much standardized Javascript that you can write once and run in any browser.

I never used jQuery, but it seems that two other problems that is solved and that current browsers largely cover now are:

- easier AJAX requests (fetch does this)

- selecting nodes using CSS-like selectors (querySelector / querySelectorAll)

Hiding elements too: HTML now has the hidden attribute. Maybe manipulating HTML/CSS classes? (classList has everything)

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