Though for that little work, I'd rather have a small local library that implements what I need over standard DOM & JS parts instead of the full weight of jQuery.

Unless of course I need to support legacy browsers, then jQ is a no-brainer - that crap is solved there and I don't want to have to deal with it myself.

And while jQ is large compared to my little home-grown set of wrappers, it is small compared to all the other stuff many pages draw in these days, so perhaps size isn't a great metric to criticise it on!