COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.]

In what sense?

I mean, they're clearly not magic in the sense of making any particular individual invulnerable, and they won't prevent community outbreaks of Omicron.

But in terms of masking reducing individual risk and potentially community prevalence, they're as applicable as they've ever been (that is, more so if the masks are higher quality and well fitting, less so if they're not). Which is particularly critical for, e.g. critically vulnerable individuals during potential exposure that they can't otherwise avoid (e.g. if a critically vulnerable person has to take public transport to a hospital and back, they'll be at lower risk if they and other people are wearing masks during that journey and at the hospital than if they're not).
In the sense that the newest strains are some of the most transmissible viruses in the know world and about 800% more contagious than original covid strains.

In the sense that very few people are wearing proper masks or wearing them correctly. If they havent figured it out in the first 3 years they wont get it in the next 90 days.

Next, most of the spread happens at home anyway and when people are around family they dont wear masks.

So yes, they still make a difference but the people that are going to wear them correctly are the same that will do it without a mask mandate.

Finally, the fatality rate has gotten so low. We arent seeing hospital crowding and the impacts do not justify the near immeasurable difference of half arse masking.

This coming from someone that still wears masks on planes.