Until then, why do not we all just stay away from the linked-list for the time being? After all C++ is all about performance - and linked-list is not!
No, thank you. Instead, why don't we try and understand the benefits and pitfalls of various data structures? Although linked lists may not be a great generic data structure, they can be incredibly useful for certain types of actions. Enumerating their strengths is a much more useful exercise than asserting sweeping generalizations.
As for your example: any stack or queue data structure is more efficiently implemented with a linked list than an array/vector. (Or any data structure that just needs to do operations on the head/tail of a data structure.)