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> The plugin is no longer strategic for adobe, they've stopped any forward-looking development on it, and are now in the mode of whack-a-mole reactive security patching.

[citation needed]

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About four years back Adobe committed to HTML5 on mobile platforms, and noted they would only provide bug fixes and security patches.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/adobe-abandons-flash-player-on-m...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8879783/Adobe-aba...

Simply because at that time both Google and Apple have banned Flash on their respective platforms, otherwise nothing would change.

I'm not sure what your point is, but the reality on the ground, is that if you want to provide access to video, or other rich content, flash is incapable of reaching the largest audience, and the audience that's growing the fastest. Adobe has made it clear there will no longer be any development of flash on the mobile platform. HTML5 is the strategic platform for adobe moving forward.

Absolutely no new major content sites as of around 2014 or so support flash as an option - they are all starting with HTML5 and/or thick local clients.

Flash needs to be EOL'd, and the sooner the better for the security of the Internet.

Citation needed comments are lazy and useless.

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