Are you getting tired of all the Flash-based "improvements" that websites use?

Sites like AOL mail and Excite mail, and Myspace Music Player, and other sites, have “improved” their entire platforms by making them entirely flash-based. (Which means your browser’s back and forth buttons won’t work on them either).

Aren’t you tired of these clunky so-called “improvements”?

Isn’t the speed and operability of a website more important than how gooey and pretty it looks?

Take Fluther for example… no Flash (except for maybe in the instant editing feature? It works so well I doubt its Flash). Do you realize how slow and bug-ridden it would be, if they switched over to Flash? Another aspect of Flash, is that designers can never get it right. There’s always some annoying bug that lingers.

Do you know of any flash-based website that actually works? I know of only one… Pandora. And even in their case, it would work even better if they gave up the Flash.

Aside from being used when necessary (such as Youtube videos and games), can you think of anytime it has actually improved things?