Cool it never was, but it might still be usefull. Different people use it for different things. It is still a reasonable option to document things, where it p

Cool it never was, but it might still be usefull. Different people use it for different things. It is still a reasonable option to document things, where it provides a slightly better abstraction than just arrows-and-boxes. This was also the real usage I used to see. The use case of generating code from it, in my opinion, was a disaster. It was much faster to just type the code than to slowly draw the diagrams in not very good drawing tools. Tooling vendors heavily promoted this, and the backlash was probably a big part of the near death of UML. There were also the UML purists. I got in an argument with an architect who insisted that my diagram was useless, as the user was a slightly different stick figure than the Official UML Stick Figure. I wont repeat my response to him here, as we are in polite company. But that perfect-UML-or-useless attitude was pervasive.