Disagree. I mean, they just do their job and it's just one. I think I understand what you mean, like "it's an useful tool we use everyday and we don't even think about it", which is true, but at the end of the day, we now mostly communicate with smartphones and other tools like pencils or even crayons can be used to write in absence of a pen. Pens are indeed still not even useful but NECESSARY in everyone's everyday life, but yeah I don't feel like they're underrated.
Our times are actually quite hard