The particular plugins I was referencing are the ones at https://www.wootiecartoons.com/search/label/TOOLs https://www.wootiecartoons.com/search/label/TOOLs - w

The particular plugins I was referencing are the ones at https://www.wootiecartoons.com/search/label/TOOLs https://www.wootiecartoons.com/search/label/TOOLs - which are as much about solving particular points of pain with "trying to get animation done in this one particular program" as they are about generally animating. Flash was always kind of a big pile of shit, while at the same time being the least shitty thing available, and it seems to have maintained that status after fifteen years of development while I was off mastering Illustrator. It is the devil I halfway know, and am already paying for with my Adobe subscription, vs. the mystery of shelling out for Toon Boom and starting from scratch on it or trying to learn Blender's weird 2d workflow or something. You should look at animation tools that aren't Animate. :)