That said, obfuscation is increasingly being used in mobile applications now. Check your banking application or some government applications, you will find obfuscation being used. With mobile applications getting richer and lot of code executing on the client side, makes it compelling case to secure applications by using obfuscation (as a defense-in-depth approach).
Open standards like OWASP MSTG [1] MSTG-RESILIENCE-9 recommend such approach.
Obfuscation is applied to programmatic defenses, which in turn impede de-obfuscation via dynamic analysis.
[1] https://github.com/OWASP/owasp-masvs/blob/master/Document/0x...