Graynomad:
Personally I never use DIPs these days, but people still like them for prototyping.
There's a lot of people (including me 
) that "play" with Arduino and MCUs for hobby at a very early stage, that: are not able to do a home-made PCB; can not solder SMD cases. So DIPs are fantastics because you can use them with breadboards or classic stripboards easily 