You will hear plenty of morse code on the lower end of the ham bands, especially during contest weekends. As for practical use, FEMA recently conducted an exercise simulating a disaster in the pacific northwest, which included ham participation. Part of that was the relay of message traffic to FEMA operations in Washington, DC. During the initial third of the exercise, the short wave radio conditions were poor which prevented the passing of automated digital traffic. Morse code operators picked up the slack relaying the traffic.
Remember the “Woodpecker” noise on the shortwave bands during the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s? The Soviet Union or U.S. were using some type of over-the-horizon radar that made a woodpecker like noise across multiple shortwave frequencies. It use to mess up shortwave reception or at least make it difficult to listen to programs as the woodpecker noise faded in and out along with the program.