It is easy as hell. What's there to not like? I don't care to be called names or being old fashioned.
I also don't care about "right" tooling for frontend. As far as it works, it is robust and it is going to be around for many years, I am fine with it.
The foundation lists jQuery under its Impact Projects which are described as:
> Impact projects are on a sustaining cycle of development, maintenance, and long-term support. These projects are used commonly in enterprise production environments and have large, well-established project communities.
> ...
> They receive ongoing financial and marketing support from the Foundation, and are expected to cross-promote the foundation along with their activities.
This seems to me like they expect to continue to support jQuery for the foreseeable future.