but it is gone, newer phones don’t have the 3D touch hardware if I remember correctly, and now they’re basically bypassing it on phones that have the 3D touch hardware.
Yes, as I described, there is functionality to give you similar/same results (long press) but in my view it’s no longer technically 3D touch.
saying it’s not gone is like saying the headphone jack isn’t gone in new phones just because you can still plug wired headphones into the lightning port or use wireless headphones. Those may be acceptable or even better options to the headphone jack, and certainly give you the same functionality, but the port is still technically gone.