Comment by jraph

I'm not advocating complicated, I'm advocating lightweight. We should not be importing libraries left and right for our convenience to the detriment of the user.

If you are going to use many features of jQuery, then it makes sense to use it, but if it's only a matter of writing one or a with wrappers, then jQuery is overkill.

I don't have a strong opinion on the proposal described in the article.