You do still see it though; a bunch of the core infrastructure packages in ROS depend on this grab bag of utilities related to console capture, cli, and colouring:
I do tend to stumble into it with hardware relates libs like ROS. Web adjacent libraries/frameworks, IMO, tends to package things a little nicer (though the js ecosystem just said YOLO).
https://osrf-pycommon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/