It has ceased development and Google no longer tries to push it, but unfortunately many large and slow-moving publications already hitched themselves to the wagon.
I was about to point at The Guardian as an example, but it looks like they managed to migrate off. Good riddance.
Thanks, kind of makes sense, they found an even more evil way to try and control the web.
On the web, nothing ever dies. It only gets shoved aside and forgotten about.
In the modern centralized web things die all the time.