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No: when I returned to real-time embedded electronics, it was still 8-bit micros programmed in C. No change in 35-40 years
Well, smaller, faster, cheaper, but that's only a change in degree, not in kind. The main things that have changed are nanopower and ADC/DAC speed/resolution.
Which period are you referring to ?
First period: early 80s to mid 90s.
Second period: 2015 to date.
Example technology: z80 and arduino atmega328 respectively. Yes, there were alternatives during both those periods, but those are sufficient to illustrate my point.
Anyhow, interesting discussion that brings back to mind the transition era from vinyl to CD music listening in late 80s toward 90s (luckily now finished), funny to note that at the end digital compressed music and class D amplification won hands down after billions of discussions about spectral fidelity, 0.001% THD, jitter and so on.
CDs very quickly established themselves as being superior to vinyl in all but one respect: sleeve art.
~1984 I remember listening on a high end (not audiophool!) audio system with a friend to
http://arsnovaclassic.blogspot.com/2012/09/michala-petri-blockflotenkonzerte.html on both CD and vinyl. We could tell a slight difference, but not which was which, nor which was better.
Compression needn't be an issue, but too often people compress too much. When my ears were remotely useful I didn't compress MP3 to less than 192kb/s. Compressed video on TVs is all to obvious, particularly where there is a colour gradient across the screen, e.g. underwater.
The only people that I know that still own an analog scope are old hams (age > 60) that never get through the navigation of two levels menu system.
Hams are a very poor sample set, for several relevant reasons!

I am aware of
very competent people that own both analogue and digitising scopes. They are aware of each instrument's characteristics and use the appropriate one.
My principal (and principle) objection is to those that state analogue scopes should not be used and that only digitising scopes should be bought. That's wrong for several relevant reasons.