So you have a story that all of a sudden has these images of a person. Or my dog. If anything, the biggest benefit is that it's extremely powerful. But power isn't everything. If anything, the way I think about Flash is different from the way a lot of people do.
Most people use it as an end tool.
I don't use Flash that way at all. I get a lot of flak about this - I use Flash about 90 percent of the time I'm on the computer. But I do it for a very specific reason. Flash is extremely flexible, and if you know it well enough, you can really milk its resources for a lot of flexibility. The Remedi Project is something I started with designer friends who were trying to do some of the same kinds of things I was trying to do on the Internet.