As another Flash veteran I completely agree with this. If you ever look at the Flex source code it's so obvious that it has been hilariously overengineered (whi

As another Flash veteran I completely agree with this. If you ever look at the Flex source code it's so obvious that it has been hilariously overengineered (which probably explains why Flex apps have always run so poorly). I don't think Flex ever really had a suitable target audience - the premise was being able to create cross-platform/cross-browser widget applications, but that was hindered by the fact that the entire app ran on the AVM (with all of the limitations that entailed). Anyone that wanted to deliver a great user experience (or had performance constraints to consider) would end up writing a native app anyway.