Transplant coming back to visit, do people still use Metrocards?

Title basically. Lived in Queens first 25 years of my life and used Metrocards (green student cards holla), coming back to visit with my family. What's the preferred method for paying for subway fares these days? Still the old school metrocard swipe or do you have like RFID scanners or some other newfangled tap-and-go shit now?

And do people prefer Uber/Lyft or are we still old school with yellow cabs?