Something is definitely lost, I'd unpopularly argue with FLASH too. You could just start templateing with VB6 and Delphi, etc, and then start writing specific c

Something is definitely lost, I'd unpopularly argue with FLASH too. You could just start templateing with VB6 and Delphi, etc, and then start writing specific code or script blobs as needed. Tools today seem like a hot mess, perhaps more powerful, but much less... human