[dennisnedry]

Agree with the author 100%. We want tons of new JS tools and frameworks out there so we can learn and evolve newer and faster ways of developing. I still remember when jQuery first came out and how earth-shattering that was. This inspired so many more devs to create better and easier to use tools.

[edblarney]

Were JS and browsers to have been designed 'properly' (or better) with hindsight, 'jQuery' would have never needed to come into existence.

JS evolution is perniciously different than the evolution of most other languages.

[CoryG89]

In hindsight of course it's obvious. jQuery should just have been built-in from the beginning! And all browsers should have always behaved the same and should never break compatibility with never versions. Then jQuery would never have needed to exist in the first place. Problem avoided.