Somewhat, but I think we still have a lot of poets in the English world who insist on being exactly 17 5/7/5. Fortunately the divide here isn't as bad as in Japan where we have had the two haiku camps (traditional, must follow all rules, and free-form) for about 100 years now and they still don't get along very well.

I do write a lot. I try to do at least one a day. I post them sometimes on here. More often I am translating older ones from the Japanese and posting that.

I just checked out your profile. I see you wrote about Santoka. Excellent! He is one of my favorites (and one that many Japanese folks know of so he's good to memorize). I have translated a few of his haiku for past Steemit posts. I should go back to him more.