Re: "essentially no role on the modern web that it helped create" ...except that it appears to be used a very large number of sites still (only recently seeing declines), if these stats are to be believed: https://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/jQuery
I get that's not your point, and you make some excellent ones about its legacy. Personally, I will never stop loving jQuery, and will continue to happily use it for any little quick web front-end I throw together.
The 14 days of jQuery
Re: "essentially no role on the modern web that it helped create" ...except that it appears to be used a very large number of sites still (only recently seeing declines), if these stats are to be believed: https://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/jQuery
I get that's not your point, and you make some excellent ones about its legacy. Personally, I will never stop loving jQuery, and will continue to happily use it for any little quick web front-end I throw together.