The demise of the tank has been predicted since the AH-1 first flew in '65. In conventional first-world warfare they quickly become high-value slow-moving air strike targets. But when it's you vs. the peasants, a tank is a useful instrument of force projection. Tricky thing is, anti-tank missiles are now about as small as anti-aircraft missiles so you end up doing a lot of upgrading. You might have missed that - this isn't a new tank, this is a bunch of gack hung all over the British Challenger 2, which first rolled out in '98. And most of the upgrades are about survivability against angry insurgents that can now hide tank-killers in their trunks.
The US Army has been standing up heavy Brigades and converting light infantry, armor, and field artillery units to heavy ones for the last 2 years in order to prepare for near-peer threats. I watched it happen at the Division level last summer. While strapping new gear on the Challenger seems shaky at best, that Active Protection system is a lot more effective than you might think. No human attention needed, effective for guided ordnance, quick enough to react in an urban environment from someone firing from the third story of a building almost directly above you. Consider that heavy armor engagements are usually won by whoever hits first. Disrupting the first shot of an ambush makes the defender's job a piece of cake in comparison.