@meeper They deprecated Flash but had nothing to replace it with. The creative juices went elsewhere and what I remember growing up with is a distant memory. Ruffle and related projects are helping to revive what would otherwise be lost.

Flash, while having a flawed implementation, had some good ideas. Animations made with vectors effectively have an unlimited resolution, eliminating the need for Ruffle et al. to upscale. I didn't personally work with its tooling so I can't speak about ActionScript or how the whole thing was to work with.