It definitely implies that there's something fishy going on though nowadays. In almost any JS runtime jQuery isn't necessary anymore because most of the good ideas are already added to the language.
Whoa! That takes us back to the Dark Ages of 2009. Did they even have Wi-Fi? Man, there isn't going to be any Angular, React or Ember in the code, let alone all three like I was hoping for.
Kindly chill with the snark, and the implicit assumption that I'm some sort of framework lackey. That was the year the iPhone 3g came out. Lots HAS changed since then, not least that Javascript through 2009 was ES3, unchanged since 1999 at that point, 2 years after the language was released.