Exactly due to the computational demands I don't think genetic algorithms have ever really been "alive", but with compute getting cheaper I could see it seeing success similar to the rise of Deep Learning.

Evolution Strategies as stabilizers without the genetic component are already being deployed quite well e.g. AlphaStar.

Jeff Clune was quite active in that area of research and he recently joined DeepMind.

https://twitter.com/jeffclune/status/1629132544255070209