@Arcana I would rather use vanilla js than jquery, for one thing. js has mostly caught up to jquery without plugins.

reactivity, automatically-updating data on the page is really really nice and jquery doesn't do that. also jquery doesn't play nice with any of the newer libraries. A couple years ago I was working on a 10grans store (basically finished but never launched lol). and I bought a 4 dollar template that turned out to use JQuery. It was an enormous pain in the ass to make jquery and vue.js work together, they are conceptual mismatches with each other.