I use Thunderbird to consume the changelog of my very own software. I can confirm, it works great! I get always notified accurately when something changed I changed.

And at least the "performance nightmare" is an irony from today's perspective as the Flash player wasn't actually slow at all! It was the incapability of the Safari browser to handle plugins in a good way and on mobile devices. Today's implementations of mobile application, JavaScript heavy applications and websites are much much more performance heavy.

ActionScript3 was a very suitable language.

Steve Jobs decided differently when he hated on ActionScript.

10 years ago this sentence probably would have start a flame war. ;-)

As I am interested in long time maintainability (should still work in 10 years) with my projects I am just using esbuild directly. I am not interested in adjusting my projects, just because things changed under the hood in "wrappers" like Vite and I suddenly have a lot of work.