[tambourine_man]

I know it’s trandy to disqualify jQuery, but I’ve yet to see a rational argument that justifies it.

Most small to medium sized projects don’t need MVC, build systems, preprocessors, docker, etc. It's just a collective fascination for shinny overly complex things.

[GrzegorzWidla]

Even if you decide MVC is not needed, it's just as likely you won't need jQuery either. Vanilla JS is pretty powerful and cross browser complaint these days.

[speedplane]

Jquery is messy on a large scale, but on a small scale it allows you type far less code than pure JS. On small to medium size projects, it's entirely reasonable to remain the best tool.