It wasn't long ago that Game AI Pro said “bidirectional pathfinding for A* is usually a poor choice”[1]. There's been some recent work presented at GDC 2018 about bidirectional search[2] but even there they said it was only useful sometimes. Have things been changing? I'm not in the industry so I only hear bits and pieces.

[1] Chapter 17 http://www.gameaipro.com/GameAIPro/GameAIPro_Chapter17_Pathf...

[2] Slides https://www.movingai.com/GDC18/GDC18Bidir.pdf or if you have access to the GDC Vault there's a recording of the talk https://www.gdcvault.com/browse/gdc-18/play/1025071/Bidirect...