I'm sure there will be strongholds that hold out on adopting big blind ante for a while, but also agree with DoubleEagle that it is increasingly the present and clearly the future. They've been doing it in the high rollers for a couple of years, and now in all series tournaments at the Wynn, Venetian, and Aria, plus WPT events, and I saw on Twitter yesterday that they're using it in all tourneys at Foxwoods now. Perhaps the most persuasive evidence is the fact that WSOP went back (after announcing their schedule) and changed a number of events to BBA (including two of the Daily Deepstacks). All of the dealers I spoke to at WSOP this year said it was extremely popular and much better for the game. It wouldn't surprise me if all the NLH events next year were BBA.
As for applying it in home tournaments, I'm in the camp that likes antes. Having an ante (dead money) affects play and rewards aggression in a way that simply larger blinds (live bets) do not. Not only that, but I kind of like playing my home tournaments as "practice" for the "real world" tournaments, and antes are part of the game. I've adopted the BBA in my home tournaments, and guys adjusted to it very quickly. I took my old structure and basically set the BBA to equal 6x our old antes. So when we're playing 8-handed, the ante amount is a bit less than the old structure, when it gets short-handed it's a bit more, so there is some marginal difference to the game. But once you're accustomed to it, it's so efficient.
And incidentally, returning to the issue of chips, playing with the BBA reduces the number of small denomination chips you reasonably have to have in play. For example, where our old ante was 50, the new BBA is 300. Fewer greens to worry about and color up.