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You are literally criticizing jQuery for its best features. Not having outdated libraries and potentially dangerous vulnerabilities is a huge plus for jQuery. Do you think just because you use a build tool for modules from all over the npm-verse that vulnerabilities just magically go away?

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jQuery has had its share of dangerous vulnerabilities. https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:jquery

agreed, but it's only one library, and might be the only one you need; really, it has an excellent track record considering that it's been around longer than npm itself.

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