I still do. It's faster than Kitty and Ghostty, and I don't make use of the extra features those provide. I don't use glyphs nor rendered images, and I use a tiling WM so tabs aren't that important to me. Alacritty does what I need it to, and does it well.

That's exactly my experience. I dislike ligatures (I want to see the characters I typed) and tiling/tabs are anti-features if you have a tiling WM.