Just today got back in contact with an old acquaintance from the AIGA Experience Design group a couple years ago and as I'm looking through his site, I think he puts this quite nicely:
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Think of [Macromedia] Flash as cilantro - it works great as garnish for a tasty dish, but you'd throw up if you tried to eat a whole bowl of it.