It's much cheaper to push Flash further into irrelevance by growing their new platform(s) without it. The things that Flash can do that just straight up can't b

It's much cheaper to push Flash further into irrelevance by growing their new platform(s) without it. The things that Flash can do that just straight up can't be done with HTML/CSS/JS is actually pretty small, and competitive pressure is likely to push JS performance ahead of ActiveScript in time, if it isn't there already.