If it's a corporate environment, the standards are different, understandably. But the hostility to jQuery is also primarily concentrated among corporate devs that seemingly cannot imagine that jQuery might be valuable for use cases other than their own.

Not every site out there is an database-driven SPA that needs QA review and a deployment pipeline each time an update is made. Lots of sites are just simple WordPress or even raw HTML pages that need a little bit of a facelift, with animations or transition. jQuery does the trick, and as a bonus, it's a much gateway drug to JS than the official ES6 documentation could ever be.