Or... he blocked it because of all the actual reasons listed when Flash was blocked? And the same reasons why it was blocked on Android just a year or so later?
I mean, it's not ancient history. It only happened 10 years ago.
And the fact was that Steve Jobs had a history and long habit of forcing walled gardens on consumers - something well known in that era.
In fact I would call it the "widely established" fact https://www.infoworld.com/article/2627117/iphone-developers-...
Of-course most of this depends on whether you had personal experience developing productive flash apps and whether one suffers from the Apple propaganda effect - where Apple's position is King and all other positions are null and void. I happen to see the latter quite often on HN.