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Yes, but its not the Pokemon's type you worry about when considering weakness. Its the type of attacks a Pokemon has. Fairy being weak to a Dark Type attack won't change much if Sylveon is facing off against a Dark Type Pokemon with no Dark attacks.
While half your statement still rings true, the same can almost be said for dark in general. Poison is only good against Fairy and Grass types effectively, while their added bonus of majority of them poisoning all but Steel and Poison makes up for their lack of offensive power. Ghost, Ground, Poison, and Rock are all that resist Poison.
While three are somewhat common in meta, they still can't deal with added effects well.
While Dark shares Poison's number of strengths currently. Even if Dark is effective against Fairy that only puts it one more above. Dark's only real strength would be being able to check Fairy AND Ghost types which the latter is fairly common in the meta. Psychic types are still good check and their immunity to them helps, but not initially concerning a Fairy Type. Resistance wise, Dark is resisted by 3 types, Dark, Fighting, and Steel...all three are common in current meta as well so Dark and Poison's resistance checks are pretty much even when paired up.
Dark is also weak to Bug and Fighting attacks which are both climbing the ladder in usage as attacks. With the new generation and us getting better bug attacks each gen, we may see even more which would increase bug's potential and lowering Dark's. A lot of things use heavy hitting Fighting attacks nowadays, be them physical or special.
Since Poison type Pokemon aren't used as much as Dark types there's not much point in pulling up their overly common weaknesses as a lot of things use either Psychic or Earthquake. But the point being made is that Dark has just as much liability issues as Poison faces. Only thing saving individual Dark Types is that their stats are usually superior to Poison types in ways and they are common counters for high powered Psychics and Ghost making them needed a little more.
With a demand change on the way, Dark type usage can slow and reverse the flow making Poison more wanted than Darks just to come up as checks for Fairy. Even if the Pokemon type isn't used, the attack type may see a surge with both being somewhat even and Poison having a slightly better lingering effect.
New generation, new meta. Fairy has a chance to change everything or nothing at all depending on use of the individual Pokemon. Only threats that have been shown are Sylveon (130 possible SP. Attack), Gardevoir, and Xerneas (if he even gets used much).
Azumarill has potential I guess, but I don't see it climbing up the ladder just yet. Wigglytuff?...ya....no.
If Clefairy gets Fairy Type, then she may move up as Magic Guard makes her better suited to switch in and face off while entry hazards or weather effects are up, as well as can safely use Life Orb for an added damage bonus.
Honedge is definitely going to be a check for both Dark and Poison types. Its fairly neutral to Dark attacks, but with Dark attacks being fairly weak by default and only really get their power from added effects, he'd be a decent check thanks to Steel's usually high natural Defense and Special Defense. You'd have to have a heavy Dark type to counter it with a Fire or Earthquake attack.
Then we have Inkay which has a lot of potential being a Dark type I can see it getting used more than other Dark types which sorta raises the "bug climbing the ladder" thing.
Then we still have old checks which may come back more competitively like Lucario which pretty much walls both Dark and Poison types and has some team versatility.
So..ya...its going to be a brand new ball game which all of us pretty much needing to relearn some strategies to adjust to the new game style and all the new Pokemon.
We still don't know if Fairy resists anything so we don't know what it can check defensively and only know about 2 possible offenses. One being confirmed, Dragon, and the other unconfirmed but has high support being from a company that works under the distribution company and gets news straight from the source, Ice.
