It isn't that these rebuttals are unsound, it's the sheer volume of them. A tidal wave of irritation and defensiveness always seems to accompany posts that dare question jQuery.
Unless the headline was changed by the mods, there's no hyperbole or sensationalism here. You might not need jQuery. Obviously. But many of these reactions don't belong here, they belong in a post titled You don't need jQuery, which would of course deserve to be downvoted to hell.
Obviously you don't need to pull in jQuery for every little twenty-line gizmo you publish on github. But don't you dare brag about this or you'll offend the sensibilities of those who've invested all their mental energy into learning jQuery and therefore remained ignorant of how browsers actually work.
Unless the headline was changed by the mods, there's no hyperbole or sensationalism here. You might not need jQuery. Obviously. But many of these reactions don't belong here, they belong in a post titled You don't need jQuery, which would of course deserve to be downvoted to hell.
Obviously you don't need to pull in jQuery for every little twenty-line gizmo you publish on github. But don't you dare brag about this or you'll offend the sensibilities of those who've invested all their mental energy into learning jQuery and therefore remained ignorant of how browsers actually work.