It had sounded from the 2.0 announcement that they are only supporting 1.x for purposes of back-porting bug fixes. If the goal is to do some kind of long-term commitment to the mission of cross-browser compatibility, then forking off "2.0" seems pointless and even harmful. To verify, however: if this article then specifically was comparing jQuery 2.0 to native DOM, would you submit that iamjared's complaint would not apply? ;P