Director 12 - Does Adobe have a strategic plan for this product ???

Adobe staff, and Director experts reading this, please answer these questions, for the benefit of all developers who purchased Director 11.x  licenses, and for those who are thinking of purchasing Director 12 licenses.
Why is the Director 11.x and Director 12 documentation, as published by Adobe, so incredibly bad?
Why are the Adobe Director resources on the web and in book form, mostly in reference to Macromedia Director MX and Director 8.5?
After Director 8.5 people stopped writing about Director, even though Adobe continues to release new versions.  Case in point, Director 12 was just released in February 2013.
For example, Amazon.com lists a handful of books under "adobe director", all of them published in 2003 or before, all referring to Director MX or D8.5, and most of them out of print.  Those versions of Director are ancient history in the software world.
Are Silverlight3D and Unity3D taking over the "3D in a browser" niche?
HTML5 WebGL is not ready for prime time, and may not be fully supported in all the major browsers for many years (especially not in Internet Explorer).
So which is the dominant de facto "3D in a browser" solution right now, and for the next few years?
Why doesn't the Adobe Director development staff or the Adobe marketing staff talk in public about Director, like for example on this forum?
Adobe is obviously spending capital dollars to write and release new versions, but we don't see Adobe employees on this forum (which is published by Adobe), evangelizing and promoting Director. 
It's as if the Adobe marketing people don't talk to the Adobe Director development staff.
This may be because Adobe has no strategic plan for Director.
If that's wrong, then what is Adobe's strategic plan for Director 12?
What is Adobe's strategic plan for future versions of Director?
Without a strategic plan for future versions, Director is already dead in its tracks.
So is Adobe Director a dead platform?
Should all of us "3D in a browser" developers put our Director 11.x CD's for sale on ebay, and move on to another platform before it's too late for us?

I agree with you. I have been complaining on this forums and asking Adobe to provide us with good documentation about Director 12 since its release a few months ago. I haven't seen any replies from Adobe or updates to the web site.
The iOS support is really poor. No support for video? Adobe is really dropping the ball here. I am very disappointed as many other customers about Adobe's unprofessional behavior releasing a product that is incomplete. I think they want to kill this product and this is the best way they found how to do it. I don't find any other reasonable explanation.

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