[bihnkim]

> frees dev cycles to focus on performance

Perhaps this is the case--jQuery saved them so much time that they've reached a point where they are free to optimize their frontend by removing jQuery.

[andrei_says_]

Maybe these are not the same developers?

I know I may be replacing jquery with stimulus or eventually vuejs but writing 5 lines of jquery code for my MVP is exactly the right balance today.

[kthejoker2]

Knuth would approve. If you don't have a product, what are you optimizing?