That's because it's not a "kludge of a technology". It works most of the time, doesn't some times, and has bad problems (locking up your browser, crashing, etc

That's because it's not a "kludge of a technology". It works most of the time, doesn't some times, and has bad problems (locking up your browser, crashing, etc.) on the minority of times. A lot of anti-Flash people, for whatever reason, translate the bad occurrences as "blows" or some other hyperbole.