Not sure how this one slipped through my radar, but here's an article I wrote about this very topic. In short, Blender Render always had benefits over Cycles and vice versa. But in recent years Blender Render has faded from relevance and has officially been removed from the 2.8 update.
Speaking of 2.8, we will be re-recording all fundamental courses for 2.8 and it will be Cycles + Eevee - woot!
That's nice to know.
Do you guys already know WHEN the Blender 2.8 fundamental courses will be available?
sschwertnerboi1 This week the Blender Developers announced that 2.8 is being released at some point in July! So now that we have a definite timeline, you can expect our 2.8 fundamentals to be released in July as well.
We've been eagerly waiting for 2.8 to reach a state where we can record fundamental videos with the least possible potential for confusion. Even the 2.8 version from last week to this week has differences in the UI that would confuse a new user. So finally it seems we're nearing that state :)