It's like someone saying that new technology has killed painting or ceramics when people are very obviously still doing those things.
There's this capitalistic obsession with paradigm shifts and every new technology or idea being the next big thing that will change the very foundations of the world (but not really) and it permeates everything from science to technology to art and we're sick of it. We're sick of being sold some rich person's idea of a better world.
Literally going back at least as far as the introduction of dry plate, every time anything new is introduced, especially if it makes anything easier, people rush to write photography’s obituary. Nothing more traditional in the medium, really. Dry plate, film, box cameras, color, small format, metering, autofocus, digital, everything.
The whole medium in a sense is just a series of labor-saving gimmicks to speed the mechanical reproduction of images and that seems to induce a persistent, inescapable anxiety in camera operators.
