Are there legitimate uses for password cracking or is this about getting access to other people's accounts?
We sometimes crack passwords to do a password strength audit. Sometimes dictionaries aren't really enough (as someone might have chosen an obvious word in another language) so it's easier to just crack the passwords, automate analysis of the obvious and then scan through anything left behind.
WPA-PSK cracking is particularly useful in the UK Local Government sector, where local government in most cases needs to have an annual penetration test, often including their wireless networks. A lot choose WPA-PSK because it doesn't mean spending money on a full-blown wifi network.
The other thing we use password cracking for is when we do incident response work. Sometimes people encrypt things like documents or use PGP containers. This isn't quite making PGP cracking feasible, but certainly the majority of encrypted word documents should be doable with this.