I've started (and maintained) my ASQ membership after the point at which many have written it started to decline! When I was younger, I found a lot of value in both the certifications and Quality Progress articles. (I can't say that I ever understood whatever "Mr. Pareto-Head" was trying to accomplish, even after reading an interview with the creator.). I've been very lax about local chapters. We'll have to see if my pandemic-era recertification journal is accepted.
As I have matured as a Quality Professional, I've gotten less out of the publications. Some of it is due to the focus of the articles, some of it has been repetition. I actually proposed a peculiarly holistic session topic (it's a generally applicable theory of using different levels knowledge to get particular work done with a quality mindset) for a rather minor conference session that was, as near as I can tell, pretty much rejected out of hand. Like any good talk, it can be adjusted for particulars... which if I had been allowed to present would have been a nice positive meta-commentary on the topic, but I digress...
I've been occasionally disappointed by a few folks with certifications that "should have known better", but that is true with just about every professional society and/or certification process I have encountered. Work with enough PEs and you may be surprised at some of the major blunders (and general personality disorders) that you may witness.
As long as ASQ maintains some standards for the certifications I do believe that the organization offers value. I worked on multiple sides of a question bank rework for one certification, but I never saw what the finished amalgamation looked like. Bluntly: Many employers don't know how to assess the competency of their own employees, so a well-established organization (like ASQ) with well-defined "Bodies of Knowledge" for the subject matter areas is a means of evaluating certain general competencies of employees, to first order. I can attest that I've had far fewer false-alarm non-conformances at incoming inspection from folks with a CQI certification than from those without. My org delivers the same training to all inspectors, but the external BoK of the CQI has been the special sauce that provides external context to the fundamentals of that job. That sort of discrepency makes it easy to show the ROI for a certification when there is a VP screaming about the cost of false-alarm NCRs. Disclaimer: I do not have a CQI certification myself.
Is ASQ able to make a self-assessment of their utility and value? Maybe if they'd have let me present my talk they'd have some idea! I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss ASQ certification if the only quality certification someone has is from "the school of hard knocks". Even Neil Peart took drum lessons in the 1990s.... and he already had dozens of certifications (silver, gold, platinum record sales) by that point in his life.