The Flash and Director teams were/are still working on their own with their projects without any influences of the Adobe takeover as these are projects which have been started before Adobe and MM went in bed. Beside of this Adobe also has no experience with these tools.
This might change for future versions but not for the current running projects. Also there hasn't been thrown in a lot of money or manpower into the teams. The income of each product covered it's costs also when it was MM only.
Then each flash update had some major improvements. For version 7 to 8 for example it was the implementation of the new video codec which changed the offered video content on websites a lot. You have much more flash-videos than realplayer crap nowadays. And some day there will also be 3d...
This might change for future versions but not for the current running projects. Also there hasn't been thrown in a lot of money or manpower into the teams. The income of each product covered it's costs also when it was MM only.
Then each flash update had some major improvements. For version 7 to 8 for example it was the implementation of the new video codec which changed the offered video content on websites a lot. You have much more flash-videos than realplayer crap nowadays. And some day there will also be 3d...