Languages... (is jQuery a language, I guess so, let's go with that)... live in a context... there is culture, tooling, libraries, frameworks. Some languages have good culture, some have bad culture. I guess it's not even so black and white: language have good or bad culture in different areas: testing, cleanliness, coding standards, security, etc. If jQuery is misused in the hands of bad programmers ALL THE TIME, that becomes the culture. Not much to do about it anymore once the concrete has set. You can't still be an exception to rules, good for you! But that doesn't change the culture...?

> If jQuery is misused in the hands of bad programmers ALL THE TIME, that becomes the culture.

My bet is that everyone here both agrees with you and is able to replace "jQuery" with "HTML", "CSS", and "JavaScript" to reach similar conclusions about the cultures of each. The problem is bad programmers, not the tech.