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> We wanted to be one of the first major consumer-publishing websites to be jQuery-free!

That’s the exact opposite of a technical reason. Actually sound like following the hype.

> Our quest for greater page-speed optimizations reached a point were we considered jQuery as unnecessary overhead.

Their 'conditions for removal' are half made up of reasons they want to remove jQuery. Makes no sense.

Which one of the 4 reasons were "made up"? The last reason may not be technical but it's a reason we wanted to exploit. Looks like it worked ;)

Never said they were all "technical" reasons :)