Some valid criticisms of jQuery

Some valid criticisms of jQuery


Most critique is poor but these seem very valid.
http://www.danwebb.net/2008/1/31/low-pro-for-jquery
In particular the closures around the plugins mean that you cannot
modify the behaviour of plugins without monkey patching. I don't know
if there's a way round this ?
Also jQuery doesn't offer a way to OO your code (unlike prototype for
instance). Obviously this probably falls out of its remit, but it
would be interesting if there was a recommended framework ? The
javascript for 64squar.es has got pretty complex recently and is
suffering from the fact that it is not properly OO.
I was just looking at JS.Class which looks interesting.
Jonah