When people see some set of new tools, they always forget the good part of the former, and will be blindfolded on the bad part of the later.
As for me, even though I'll ditch jQuery for vue on big projects, jQuery is still ok for some reasons.
Supporting IE, the default browser of windows 7 is very important.
When you use a cdn, the 30kb pain is gone.
It's very cool to replace selectors, but when you try replacing the $.ajax, $('#id').show(), .animate, etc with plain JS, you're really stressing yourself just because "You don't wanna use jQuery"!
Even without any JS knowledge, you can still edit jQuery code (I know what I'm saying!), and approximately every web developer understands jQuery.
jQuery's age or modern JS should not judge whether you need a framework/library or not, your project should be the judge! I only wish folks from envato and the likes are here...
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When people see some set of new tools, they always forget the good part of the former, and will be blindfolded on the bad part of the later.
As for me, even though I'll ditch jQuery for vue on big projects, jQuery is still ok for some reasons.