Comment by rement

You can define your own `$` function. This way you can have the clean code without the entire jQuery library

    function $(arg) {
        if (arg.charAt(0) == "#") {
            // HTML spec does not support ids to start with numbers [0]
            // (you may not need this conditional on your website)
            return document.getElementById(arg.slice(1))
        }
        return document.querySelector(arg)
    }

Using this function you can select your comment with

    $('#27677234')

jQuery does add many extra features but if clean code is the only thing you are after there are other options.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-id