So I am a long time animator and artist using Flash.
Today I am teaching the chilluns' how to use laser cutters and routers and CNC and the software available is crap.
1. Autodesk: They will never fully learn it while simultaneously learning the basics of CNC tech, very hard to be artistic.
2. Fusion 360: Total crap for vector work, issues when run on some processor types.
3. Illustrator: Why not just shoot them, the learning curve is so sharp they cut themselves on it.
4. Inkscape: Hard to use, full of bugs. They cry when it never scales their final file properly and their design comes back from the cutter ruined.
5. Crikut/Silhouette Studio: Screw that. Just. screw. that.
I end up using the per machine license for Flash Pro we have and have the kids work in Flash because it is intuitive for vector creation and learning the basics of snapping, nodes, splines, bitmap vs. vector and the like.
If Adobe pared down FlashPro/CS/Animate/Whatever to a single keyframe, no timeline, but left the bitmap, snapping, erase, and line drawing tools intact, there would be a huge Maker market for a $35 software. There would need to be a measuring tape tool and a ruler that can be snapped to ...and people would fall over their face because it's so EASY.
According to the Nielsen Ratings Rule if I'm doing it at least 18,000 other households are doing it.