That is fair enough. Though that wasn't really Flash's original ambition. And to be further fair, the fact that it wasn't their explicit ambition is possibly what saved it, while Java suffered a doomy fate from Microsoft's embrace and extend strategy.

Flash was fine as a format for vector images. (like SVG). Then it was fine for animations. Then simple interactive graphics. Then it gets a scripting language. And as it gets more and more sophisticated, more used as an application platform-- something flash was not originally designed to do, it becomes more and more like Java in its shortcomings. Binary blobs. Long load times. Serious security holes. Slow as molasses.

But flash always had one good thing going for it: Anti-aliasing.