I haven't used Uber much since the early days when it was honestly a bit of a revelation. Before that your options for getting home from central London after nightclubs closed were terrible (usually standing in a queue for some dodgy taxi company where half the time it was an unlicenced taxi).

It worked really well for me in those early years. To the point I'd take an Uber home from work if the weather sucked or I was otherwise not in the mood to walk.

The only time I ever had an issue was trying to take a taxi to an airport hotel from the train station nearby. Apparently all of the taxis were waiting in a queue at the airport and noone was going to lose their place in the queue over a 5 minute journey.