They're still around, but it feels like no really cares all that much about them anymore.
Personally: I used to work my ass off for certain achievements, and will still try to get at least most of them in a given game, but I'm not willing to put myself through the level of hell that I used to for that one fuckin' achievement almost every game has.
I like achievements, they are the only reason i have so many hours in eu4, otherwise i would get bored with it
Yeah, Paradox achievements are a pretty good way to give me an idea of wth to do instead of picking a country and winging it.
If only I had those for programming maybe I'd actually end up with a real project.