Traceroute is becoming more and more an expert's tool because interpretation of its results isn't straightforward.
I had written a paper last year and mentioned its misuse in academia in the context of estimating the number of energy-consuming devices between a source and a destination.
Traceroute was being used to count the number of physical router devices from the hop count, notwithstanding the use of MPLS in domain cores.
To an external observer, this results in significant underestimation of the energy consumption in the path from source to destination.