It might make sense to cherry pick jQuery features and build your own jQuery — if you absolutely need it, and absolutely can’t carry the whole library. In other cases I think it’s mostly just bikeshedding.
jQuery is there to minimize surprises. Native API is magnitudes faster — yes. It is also divergent across browser runtimes. Then you code for special cases and test by hand, now you’re building your own jQuery.
jQuery is there to minimize surprises. Native API is magnitudes faster — yes. It is also divergent across browser runtimes. Then you code for special cases and test by hand, now you’re building your own jQuery.
Maybe we have better things to do.