I also once in a while have IEEE membership because of some conference discount (even if it is not such a nobrainer as with student membership). Other than that

I also once in a while have IEEE membership because of some conference discount (even if it is not such a nobrainer as with student membership). Other than that I am just seeing a very intransparent huge org that does not provide much benefit. Some field are dominated by US researchers, some by Chinese. IEEE does not show much interest in breaking non-inclusive networks. Unlike ACM (which is far from perfect), I don't even recognize small bits a tranformative spirit. I had colleagues that had their IEEE status in their footer and used their IEEE, but most of those have been retired by now.