I see others have pointed it out, but this is an issue of Adobe using traditional dev. tools and programmers who are also used to writing code at that level.

Now, do I think that is a good idea? NO! Adobe software is getting worse by my measure, not as bad as MS but bad.

The revolution was from NeXT and now at Apple and it takes real thinking and forward looking attitude to really embrace it. Adobe sees little advantage in changing and I can't imagine they will anytime soon.

They make too much mony to worry about changing the way they create software and have a ton of legacy code and legacy programmers around.

Sad, but true.