Why do people still use directory submission in seo?

Is useless to search engines but useful for organic traffic. Sites (search engine) which delist crawling of inlinks to crawling bots are those ones which are authoritative, thus making your listing worthless. On the other hand, if is a local based listing for a specific niche, then you are good to go cos it will readily serve as a reference point for local searches.

Therefore, is good and is not good too.