But even for games and other software, I just don’t think the NPAPI browser plugin model was worth keeping. It was never ideal for what it was most popular for (videos, streams) which only became apparent after the alternatives stabilized. Phones now have better CPUs and GPUs and I am relieved beyond words that Flash is totally dead now. Worst of all, Flash frequently crashed my browser and sometimes even caused the entire phone to reboot. If you had Flash enabled on a blog or other site that just happened to pop up a flash ad, it would make the whole page janky, greatly hurting pan and zoom functionality and killing your battery life for no benefit. Worse than this was sites that used Flash in non-essential ways like ads.
Flash games and applications almost worked, although virtually none of them were responsively designed, and they mostly worked pretty poorly with touch controls, and unlike HTML there was no way to reasonably work around or improve this at the browser level, because it was just a big proprietary black box.
I was an Android user at the time and the only way Flash on my device could be described is in terms of locomotive incidents.
