Dead in the way that matters: the links have become cheap and the visitors are not coming. In April I did the SEO job I had put off for years, thousands of cross-links and new landing pages on my site and two customer sites, and Search Console responded within weeks. Two weeks later I looked at what it brought: a few percent of the views. Search is not gone, it moved into the answer box and the chat window, where your page is a source at best. When did you last type a question into Google and click a result? I had to think about it.