[marticode]

Indeed. Though a lot of its feature found their way into plain vanilla Javascript and browsers, the syntax is still so much easier with jQuery.

[kulahan]

The clean and simple syntax was always the reason to use jQuery. I remember seeing sites that were anti-JQ, so they'd show how you could replace a single jQuery line with 9 vanilla JS lines and uh... somehow this would improve things?

I can't believe how much public opinion has changed over the years. Love it, actually.