I was thinking the same thing. However, it made me respect them just a little bit more. They could have just written a blog post and said... "We're no longer us

I was thinking the same thing. However, it made me respect them just a little bit more. They could have just written a blog post and said... "We're no longer using Flash," but instead, they took the time to build something that a) illustrated very well their new technology, and 2) actually entertained some of us. Valiant effort.