Flash was a kind of devious problem in the same way as IE was and Chrome is: Those who depended on it got benefits while messing up the lives for everyone else

Flash was a kind of devious problem in the same way as IE was and Chrome is: Those who depended on it got benefits while messing up the lives for everyone else. To be fair to IE and its modern replacement Chrome, if you develop and test mostly on IE and Chrome you can make things cross browser if you put effort into it, something you couldn't with Flash. Getting rid of Flash - whatever the reasons was - was a huge gift to the web and by extension people like me who develop on and for an open web.