Yes, Flash is old and useless now that HTML5 is mature. I can’t wait to see Flash go away. Sadly, a lot of those wonderful popup ads still run in Flash, so I don’t get to see them properly on my iPhone or in Safari.
It’s also a battery killer and a continual source of security-related patches.
It’s not just popup ads that need Flash. Some of the websites I go to from time to time still require it to view their content, and wishing it was otherwise does not solve the problem.
It will take some time, it would appear, but for now Flash is still necessary for some websites to function properly...