You're comparing combustion engines to nuclear power plants. Most vehicles will have combustion engines, even though a lot of energy is generated with nuclear technology.
I'd also be curious what percentage of frontend roles are looking for someone proficient in jQuery versus other frameworks.
If they are using jQuery they don't need to hire a frontend engineer, because their problems are solved.
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You're comparing combustion engines to nuclear power plants. Most vehicles will have combustion engines, even though a lot of energy is generated with nuclear technology.
If they are using jQuery they don't need to hire a frontend engineer, because their problems are solved.
If their site requires minimal interactivity and will never scale to a point where more than 2 or 3 people work on it, then yeah absolutely.
2 or 3 people working on a frontend without strict supervision and hierarchy is literally the same clusterfuck as with any other [non-]stack.