2 of your 3 points are purely opinion, so agreement will vary from person to person, but I disagree with number 2. Flash player is not so popular because it do

2 of your 3 points are purely opinion, so agreement will vary from person to person, but I disagree with number 2. Flash player is not so popular because it doesn't perform well. It perform great. One of the best sources to deliver video and complex interactivity such as games available. People always attribute the low barrier to entry of flash (7you can crank out a bad website or animation quickly) to the speed and quality of the flashplayer or actionscript/mxml. Honestly, there are many more bad html/css and java sites than flash. To make a long rant short, quality flash/flex can provide just as good (and oftentimes better) UX than anything else.