I've been doing front-end for years and still use jQuery for almost 90% of my projects. It's not because I'm resistant to change, I've done my share of SPA style projects.
Simply said, jQuery is still the best plug-n-play solution for most small projects.
The numbers are not against jQuery. There's no real gains to skipping it. At 27.77 KB (Minified and Zopflinated file size) it's not as if it's weighting down your pages. On the rare occasions I actually come across something done faster in raw JavaScript (often because jQuery has some heavier polyfills), I simply use the raw JavaScript in my jQuery project.
Simply said, jQuery is still the best plug-n-play solution for most small projects.
The numbers are not against jQuery. There's no real gains to skipping it. At 27.77 KB (Minified and Zopflinated file size) it's not as if it's weighting down your pages. On the rare occasions I actually come across something done faster in raw JavaScript (often because jQuery has some heavier polyfills), I simply use the raw JavaScript in my jQuery project.