Why isn't right-click supported in Flash?

As far as I understand, adobe doesn't want flash player to support right-clicking for anything but a context-menu.
I'm creating a new flash game, and once again i'm trying to figure out how to create good controls without being able to use the right click in it.
Once again, it's painful and feels like adobe is giving me the middle finger here.
Why is custom action for right-clicking not supported? It's really crippling for game developers.
Will this be different in the future?

I'm guessing they originally wanted to make a statement that "user interface must be so simple that it doesnt need right click". Then they just never added the right-click because apparently game developers aren't that important for them.
I just saw some games that were made with unity 3d and got kind of envious. The games were fast enough for playing decent 3d-shooters with browser, and also: right-click.
Adobe is coming behind with some system that allows use of hardware acceleration and 3d-api, so that one should be able to make pretty fast 3d games with flash. I hope they add the other mouse buttons by then too, because 3d-game-support but no right-click support is in my opinion just dumb.
If someone knows if the right-clicking will be added later or can guess why it hasn't already, I'd love to hear.

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