Adobe Flash (the player and authoring tool) was so good for the indie game scene! I'm pretty sure it was horrible for every other use-case, but back in the day

Adobe Flash (the player and authoring tool) was so good for the indie game scene! I'm pretty sure it was horrible for every other use-case, but back in the day Kongregate had some of the most interesting, inventive and well-done games I'd ever scene. I've never experienced so many novel game mechanics, and all because the barrier-to-entry was so low. I see why there was never any money in it for Adobe (btw valiant effort with Flex!) but the death of Flash still makes me sad for this reason alone.