You’re missing his point which he has stated very plainly in the first sentence of the message you’re replying to:
> The point is that flash was both the technology and the tools
> The point is that flash was both the technology and the tools
The lack of this specific kind of tooling and community is a clear problem. But is "HTML5" a foundational cause of the problem, or is it a scapegoat? People can legitimately disagree.