Something never quite fit with the Expression suite. I'm very glad I never set aside the time to learn it's arcane ways now. It had huge potential, but always f

Something never quite fit with the Expression suite. I'm very glad I never set aside the time to learn it's arcane ways now. It had huge potential, but always fell somewhat short. Blend was much like Abobe's Catalyst - both products shared a somewhat similar vision, but were also somewhat, evidently, doomed. The problem I have at the moment is, for doing quick-fire multi-screen, multimedia apps that can take advantage of modern hardware, there's not much left to use. Adobe Flex still seems to be about the best in terms of structure, performance, productivity and reliability. The only other system I've found vaguely comparable is Ventuz, but this has a fairly high licensing costs, lack of easily available talent and various other complications.