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You guys give a hoot about polls since 2016?
Still talking about the Hillary polls?
The polls correctly predicted a high likelihood of her winning the popular vote. It's not the fault of the polls that the actual decider is an anti-democratic and unpollable system that disproportionately favors empty land over people.
There were several models from sources like 538 that took the electoral map into account and still got it wrong. People didn't admit their cult membership back then, today they are afraid to hide it.
538 said Trump had about a 30% chance of winning.
In what way did they "get it wrong?"
That's partly true. 538 in particular has a tendency to be overly sure of itself and too cute by half.
A lot of what they do includes much more educated guesswork than actual polling, though, so "538 got it wrong" ≠ "the concept of polling got it wrong"
I think you're mistaken about "getting it wrong" here. If a statistician says "Candidate A has a 99 % chance of winning", and the candidate loses, that doesn't mean the statistician was wrong, just that the improbable happened. If you have a repeatable experiment you can do the experiment many times to see if Candidate A wins 99% of the time, if they don't then the statistician is wrong.
Problem is: We can't do multiple, uncorrelated elections to test, so we can't ever disprove the statistician. What we can do, is look at a bunch of prior elections, the predictions made, and see if we prefer trusting the statistician over not trusting them.
I think if you look at a bunch of election results and predictions, and take confidence margins into account, that you'll find the statisticians are more often right than wrong. But you need to interpret the statistical predictions correctly.