Are titration, recrystallisation, functional group analysis, etc. outdated?
It is true that modern techniques make it faster to elucidate the identity of compounds and isolate them from the reaction mixture, however to call the traditional methods like titration, recrystallization, or column chromatography (basis of HPLC) outdated is far too broad. You could probably get away with calling them outdated if all you wanted to do was to characterize compounds/final product. But when you're in synthesis, you still need the 'traditional' methods to prepare larger amounts of intermediate.

For example, HPLC is only able to separate small amounts of compounds (possibly enough for characterization) and if you wanted enough to go to the next step of your reaction (or if you wanted to make a lot), HPLC would be a highly inefficient way of doing this. Recrystallization, Distillation, and/or Column Chromatography (depending on the compound) would be much better for this purpose.