Has x-ray had its day?

An image showing Hodgkin’s 1945 model of the structure of penicillin

Source: Courtesy of Science Museum London/CC BY-SA 2.0

Will the giant of structure determination be toppled by blasts from electron beams?

Instrumental methods in chemistry have a life cycle, just like anything else. Depending on their utility and their costs, they could have a reign of years as something that everyone in a particular field uses. But there are always other methods and other instruments, and something could come along that provides more information (or provides it more easily), and then what used to be a standard method starts to move off into a dustier corner.