Yes well, some people just spend all their time on design. And their project will fail, but it looks pretty. lol
But the fact is clients and people do like them. Pretty, flashy designs that is. And we've all seen myspace, lol
I am coming from 10 years of adult design with my husband who has moved on to other things. Essentially his best clients who came back all the time were people with awesome content who focused on that, and kept their graphics clean and minimal. Flash has its place, but for showing off products you want people to buy online it is too artsy imo. Yes clients will pay a ton of money for flash, especially in the art world, but otherwise the money to be made from flash is just that. Flash isn't going to make your site/products sell any better, I promise you that. You are better off using a 30 second video clip to demonstrate and sell something if you want action media. I will probably do something like that tbh, but in general flash pisses me off and wastes my time.
