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More than capability, Adobe has made flash so needlessly complex with AS3 that they're killing off the innovation that used to be the hallmark of the platform. It used to be that a /designer/ could pick up flash and with a couple of techniques produce a rich user experience that was truly creative and innovative - and in good time. With AS3, a /designer/ needs to know how to set up a model/view/controller paradigm just to get one button to talk to another. Adobe have thrown advanced programming techniques at a market that was typically novice/hobbiest in skillset --and they've driven their users to javascript.
Case in point: Papervision is a very impressive platform, and couldn't have been built in earlier versions of flash, but you don't see a lot of content coming out on it because it simply too advanced for the vast majority of users. From a business perspective it's extremely expensive to developer for, and it will remain so because the barrier to entry is just too high.
I don't see the canvas element making any inroads into flash's territory without a simple IDE, but you can bet that jqery/mootools and anything else that makes it easy for a novice to make something cool is going to keep driving innovation on the web.