Are backlinks still important in 2019

We witnessed that some pages could rank very well without many backlinks to it. The accuracy of the content was more important. Today, it is important that the content of a page answers a demand. For example, you published the fees of a bank that didn’t publish bank fees on the internet. Your page is likely to get lots of traffic because there is a demand. From what I understood from Matt Cutts, it is important to create pages with different keywords to attract people and get a good ranking. On the other hand, a website with similar pages is not likely to rank well. 

Bloggers and webmasters should think about answering a demand when they write the title of an article.