AOP always felt like a hack. I used it with C++ early on, and it was a preprocessor inserting ("weaving") aspects in the function entries/exits. Mostly was useful for logging. But that can be somewhat emulated using C++ constructors/destructors.
Maybe it can be also useful for DbC (Design-by-Contract) when sets of functions/methods have common pre/post-conditions and/or invariants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming#Cr...
AOP is very much alive, people that do AOP have just forgotten what the name is, and many have simply reinvented it poorly.