Well, no, they're not sentimental. But I am. And that's a hell of an incentive to not use iOS if you ask me. At least with Android I know that I'll be able to still run those versions in an emulator if I want to.

This isn't about emotional blackmail. And heck, I'm not the person who made any of those things. I'm just the person who remembers them fondly and still wants to have them around. The difficulty of preserving digital works is bad enough without callous disregard for the task.

In hundreds of years, let alone thousands of years, the Flash content isn't going to matter. Neither will those iOS and Android apps. Flash has been dying for 5 years. A quicker death will be better for everyone. If we wait another 5 years, the problem will just grow.

Also, consider that the next couple billion people to come online will be mobile only. Why create content that they can't use?

We still watch hundred-year-old movies and read thousand-year-old books. Because people have put in the effort to preserve those things for us. Meanwhile, you're arguing that we shouldn't expend any effort so that people can watch five-year-old Flash cartoons.

In multiple posts, I've said deprecate it. No new Flash content. No reason to create more content that is encumbered by Flash's legacy status. (Although others here have pointed out that HTML5 is not quite as capable of replacing Flash as some think.) But why the huge rush to completely abolish the Flash content that already exists?

We absolutely don't watch all of the hundred-year-old movies or all of the thousand-year-old books, we read the BEST of those. The best of the flash content is going to be preserved via other mediums.

Removing flash entirely has the added benefit of forcing the best content onto modern mediums. Depreciating it doesn't fix the security problems associated with it, it just extends them indefinitely.