Java and Flash are great comparisons, as web / applet Java is pretty much the same market. My point being that Java felt like they were stewarding a platform s

Java and Flash are great comparisons, as web / applet Java is pretty much the same market. My point being that Java felt like they were stewarding a platform seriously (admittedly, mostly towards enterprise priorities). Whereas Flash felt like they were saying yes to whatever their designer customers asked, and worrying about the details later. And IE is just being deprecated in many places. 14 years to EOL is a snap of the fingers on enterprise timescales.