That would be imprtant to know. But there seem to be a lot of members saying the exact opposite. Can you prove that it is you who is right? That would be very helpful.
Using Meta tags you can tell search engines about your websites in many cases search engines use your web site meta description to define your website in search listing so in my view meta are still important.
The meta description has been nicely proved above. It's the meta keywords that need proving now, one way or another.