The days of IE6 which justified jQuery are long gone.

All browsers that matter now support a solid common set of features which should be sufficient for the vast majority of cases.

> All browsers that matter now support a solid common set of features which should be sufficient for the vast majority of cases.

All it takes is one of those non majority use cases and you're going to need some kind of dependency to get things consistent

You still can‘t style select elements in anything but brand new alpha chrome. It‘s been 20 years since that feature was requested.