[jacobsenscott]

There are fewer and fewer people who know jquery, so while this might be convenient for you or me, this is just more cognitive overhead for programmers who don't know jquery. There are multiple ways to hide an element, and what does `hide()` do? Some future programmer will need to look this up, and every other jquery method they stumble across.

The main problem I have with jquery though is there's no convention for event binding, so there is literally no way to know if an element depends on a jquery event handler without grepping the js for every class, id, and data selector on the object. Even that doesn't always help. This makes it almost impossible to remove jquery from a project without breaking it.

Alpine or stimulus do a much better job of filling the event handling holes that still exist vanilla js. Dom traversal/manipulation in vanilla js is good enough, even if it isn't 100% as good as jquery.

[peterangular]

On Alpine...

I have had such a positive and lovely experience with it. It's the reactivity I've always wanted; ie plays nicely with VanillaJS without imposing a complex build process.