[Multicomp]

>All of this "You have to learn the underlying tech in order to use the framework on top of it" just sounds like gatekeeping to me.

I might be putting words in GPs mouth, but I read the comments as 'making a swf and embedding it in a HTML file used to be good enough. Now everything is way more complicated'.

I tend to agree with GP. Flash and it's desktop counterparts Delphi etc certainly had their warts but they were much more intuitive on the wetware. Such that accountants and non professional / semipro users could use them.

We made a mistake by throwing them out, when we IMHO should have corrected them or replaced them with less warty programs that we're still using the same paradigm to be easy and intuitive to create.