We could argue quicksort could be rendered obsolete soon.
I suspect we'll be teaching quicksort forever, because it's a really good example of a divide and conquer algorithm.
But that's not really the premise I was responding too. Plus, I obviously enkoying being The Person In The Room talking about how the state of the art in sort puts it at linear time and right up against the edge of the information theoretical limits for bitwise comparisons.
I've never been a fan of quicksort as an algorithm. It's more like, "Let's fit this sort option to the weird hardware constraints we arrived at instead of asking for better hardware."