> The other thing Flash had going for it that nothing else does is animation. Even today, motion designers are stuck using After Effects (a tool designed for movie titles and broadcast news graphics). We still don't have a good tool for making interfaces that move, which means our ability to make properly interactive interfaces was severely knee-capped when Flash was removed.

We definitely need an easy to use GUI for building complex animations. Exporting animations from After Effects via Lottie is not an ideal solution. Maybe Rive or some other startup will fully supplant this workflow at some point.