While it does kinda suck if your usecase needs Flash, I think the reasoning was solid. Being able to truly run headless in a barebones command line environment

While it does kinda suck if your usecase needs Flash, I think the reasoning was solid. Being able to truly run headless in a barebones command line environment is more important than supporting Flash, in its waning years. Then, of course, there's also this: Issues are reported but nobody volunteers to analyze or fix them