many people still utilize this model to this day, It's still superior at a lot of things, current models cannot reproduce the style of dall-e 3, and if OpenAI feels so strongly about killing the model then make it open source, anything but this.
https://community.openai.com/t/do-not-deprecate-dall-e-3/1356847
https://community.openai.com/t/openai-is-making-a-huge-mistake-by-deprecating-dall-e-3/1367228