oh I wasn't bashing it. jQuery is way easier and more efficient than the component-shit.

I think most frameworks exist for when you have large teams that have to work on a big codebase. Because with a large project, you're going to need to build some good boilerplate on top of jQuery for everyone to work on it well without rebase hell. Frameworks make it easier, with the great expensive of insane compiling/packing nonsense and massive minifined JS blobs for your 2.5MB web application that should be 200k