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jQuery emerged from the market and it's pretty close to what developers wanted to express.

JS is design by a committee full of people afraid to come out as "not-as-kind" and completely detached from reality.

True, doing some of the things which were half an hour on stack overflow or 1 line of jQuery became a couple of lines of vanilla JS but the API is still pretty awful.

Think about XHR > fetch vs $.get or $.post

I agree, I'll try to use vanilla JS and google something when I need to ship some code - but for hacking around I'll just bring in jQuery and write 1-liners at blazing speed.