People tend to forget that the good part about Flash was that it offered all this (there was an API for low-level high-performance 3D graphics, Stage3D), except

People tend to forget that the good part about Flash was that it offered all this (there was an API for low-level high-performance 3D graphics, Stage3D), except there was also an explicit boundary between the "document" and the "app" and most browsers offered an option to only load Flash content when you click on its area. I'm thus still convinced that turning browsers themselves into this application platform kind of thing is a disaster. The industry is going very wrong and dangerous way right now. It's never too late to delete all this code and pretend it never happened though. I want to see a parallel reality where Flash became an open standard, with open-source plugins and all that. It is an open standard and there is at least one project of an open source Flash player (Ruffle), but it's too late. I still hope Flash makes a comeback though.