Adobe changed course to &quot;HTML5 is the future&quot; several years ago - late or not, the stable door&#x27;s been closed for quite a while.<p>With that said, the fact that Flash-The-Animation-Tool is getting renamed is fairly big for animators who use it. Adobe hasn&#x27;t done much with the tool over the past few years and many (well, me anyway) wouldn&#x27;t have been all that shocked to see it EOL&#x27;ed or left to languish in maintenance mode. The fact that they&#x27;re rebranding it suggests to me that the execs decided they still wanted a vector&#x2F;timeline animation tool even in a post-SWF world, and to invest in that direction. In a sense changing the name is just shedding baggage, but they wouldn&#x27;t have done it just to let the tool die under different branding.<p>(former Adobe employee, all content pure speculation)