Yeah the sad part about that is that the sizzle engine that jQuery is built on is a little slow compared to direct DOM or even VDOM manipulation that modern libraries provide (Vue and Svelte specifically come to mind) with similar conventions and even nicer things like directives, and other syntactical sugar.

Don't get me wrong, jQuery is still used to this day all over the place, I just am assuming based on where the ECMA spec has been going especially in the last few years, jQuery will at some point more than likely be phased out entirely.