I kinda agree with the premium part... I see it like a quite serious fail from Adobe ( nothing we're not really used to already ). I totally understand their need of monetizing the technology more, but they just really messed up badly with that 9% they are asking for some "premium features" ( not to mention that there's a relatively small - at the moment - target for it anyway ).

"Adobe Flash being the future or not" is hard to say... but it's true that looking at past and recent decisions taken by Adobe executives, it's hard to hope for anything good coming. One thing I do like is that they kinda turned away from the "let's add more useless bling-bling features to our editors" mentality ( or so it seems at least ).

PS: atRax, any remotely active Flash communities you might know about in your region? A Luzerner here...