Well... The team which abandoned its most loyal users and promoters inherited a healthy application at its peak - Flash Pro CS6 - and through incompetence, carelessness and lack of vision, slowly ran it into the ground. This same team ignored nearly all good advice and feedback, coming from people who really cared and knew what they were talking about. In 2019 with the ridiculous implementation of the so-called Advanced Layers it became quite obvious that the people in charge were amateurs, had no idea what they were doing and Animate had begun circling in a death spiral. Still, I did hope that higher management kept an eye on the product and feedback and they will all be replaced by a new competent team, which could take over and resuscitate Flash. What happened after that must be a symptom of higher-level rot at Adobe, which I see no point in commenting, because the only Adobe product I'm interested in is Flash. Things could have been very different with very little.
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