Background: I saw a comment from a developer I respect that jQuery should be deprecated.

Amazing thought. What could possibly be gained by this?

It's so deeply ingrained in the codebase. It would be like undermining the US dollar and the full faith and credit of our treasury.

It then struck me that..

Developers attacking established broadly deployed syntax is as dysfunctional as the House threatening to default on the US debt.

PS: This was originally posted on Facebook.