Surely the article ought to simply be one word: "yes". Apple made its decision in 2007. If and when flash really stops sucking (performance, UX, and security wise) and users demand it, perhaps Apple will reconsider. Since the likelihood of two of these three things is almost zero...

Maybe 2.3 and 3.0; but it didn't exist before 2.2. So I guess 2.2 is when it started sucking.