Is there any point in "plastic cards" still having raised ("embossed") lettering on them?

I know in the days of paper credit card slips that the card details were raised so that the card could be used in an "embossing machine" to print the details using a carbon copy layer.

But does any country in the world now use this manual method ?

The downside of the raised characters is that once the shiny layer wears off them, it's difficult to read the numbers as they are the same colour as the background plastic.