I dont hate jQuery but I just find it useless for modern web dev. If you can ignore internet explorer you can do everything jquey did with just vanilla js.
I tried vuejs recently for a little interactive page on my website and found it revolutionary compared to jquery.
> If you can ignore internet explorer you can do everything jquey did with just vanilla js.
There are still lots of people who can't sadly.
That said while yes you can do everything jQuery does in vanilla JS (jQuery is written in vanilla JS after all) you often end up with more code than using jquery which means more to read through, more to understand.
So saying it is useless is a bit harsh, it may be useless for you but it's not for many and if you look at what the jquery folks are doing with deprecations you can see they are refactoring jquery to use the vanilla js stuff that was added in large part because of jquery so it'll likely definite itself out of existence at some point anyway.
I tried vuejs recently for a little interactive page on my website and found it revolutionary compared to jquery.