Flex Charts: Will they improve?

Hello!
I'm trying to make some minimalistic charts for some ultimate PDF business plans and annual reports. I did them in Illustrator first, but Illustrator's graph tool hasn't been developed on since 1996, and it was a real pain to update my charts as the numbers changed. With Flex though, I can just generate charts based on XML that I output from my business models in OpenOffice. Plus they look real good and are interactive.
It seems though, that everyone I talk to say that Flex Charts suck. That they were made by people who didn't follow standards. Personally I love Flex Charts, although I'm not a big fan of having a lot of "Wait for improved CSS support", "Should be CSS" etc. comments in my code:
https://gist.github.com/1623621
https://gist.github.com/1623625
https://gist.github.com/1623628
Does anybody know if this is about to change? Are there any new Flex charting libraries in the making?
--Dwayne
P.S. If you can, please forward this post to as many Flex developers as you can.

Flex is now an Apache project (http://incubator.apache.org/flex/) and the future of the charting components will be determined by the open-source community there. However, I think Adobe may contribute some unreleased work that it has done towards a Spark version of the charting components.
Gordon Smith, Adobe

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