Which is funny, because flash was also great for creating content... If you were building learning demos or content, flash is still better than having to hand-code an alternative with html+svg+js... Though one of my early hopes when Adobe bought macromedia was that they'd push the authoring tool to export an archive file (similar to xaml) that would contain a manifest along with svg and javascript as a bundle. That never really happened though... I still hope that now it can.

I know a lot of elearning content creators that really miss being able to use flash for most things... yeah, the player was horrible, and the formats sucked.. but the content creation experience was so nice. Creating data driven projects with Flex wasn't bad either.