They're getting better in the normal cases, but they're still relatively unreliable. Plus with roaming charges, code bloat incurs costs for users.
Just a random example: my band's rehearsal space is under ground and has very poor connectivity. Sometimes I still want to look something up down there. In that situation, I really appreciate websites that download minimal amounts of code.
And I think lots of people have equivalent situations, whether it's their country house, their month in rural Thailand, their sailboat, prison, the wifi on the night bus between Cluj-Napoca and Budapest, etc etc etc.
Since I've been annoyed by heavy websites so many times, often in precious or precarious situations, I have a principle of caring about every kilobyte (and caring about offline functionality, too).
As for whether using this library just means you need to import more libraries to cover for jQuery's other features, that's an empirical question that also depends on use case.
Just a random example: my band's rehearsal space is under ground and has very poor connectivity. Sometimes I still want to look something up down there. In that situation, I really appreciate websites that download minimal amounts of code.
And I think lots of people have equivalent situations, whether it's their country house, their month in rural Thailand, their sailboat, prison, the wifi on the night bus between Cluj-Napoca and Budapest, etc etc etc.
Since I've been annoyed by heavy websites so many times, often in precious or precarious situations, I have a principle of caring about every kilobyte (and caring about offline functionality, too).
As for whether using this library just means you need to import more libraries to cover for jQuery's other features, that's an empirical question that also depends on use case.