However I laugh at point #2 -- it is simply inconceivable that Flash, with over a decade of a head start in heavy animation, actually does look better in many c

However I laugh at point #2 -- it is simply inconceivable that Flash, with over a decade of a head start in heavy animation, actually does look better in many cases (which it does) -- it has to be FUD. I don't think the FUD was that things will look better in the original Flash. That really only would make sense. The FUD was that "Oh, this thing that converted my Flash into HTML5 looked like crap afterward; therefore HTML5 must be crap", when it could really be an issue of the conversion process rather than HTML5 itself.