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Isn't Flash still viable for animation studios? I thought Flash Player is what's going away, effectively killing Flash playback on the Web, but Flash itself as an animation platform continues to be a supported, actively-developed and commercially available tool.

Yes it’s still very commonly used by animators. They actually changed the name of the application to Animate but not too much has changed over the last 10 years. We still use it heavily at our studio for 2D game animation and short form animation for TV/web.

Adobe Animate is the successor to Flash's animation toolset. Animators use a number of different tools today, many that implement tweening, depending on studio needs.

Also, low or no-cost applications that are accessible to newcomers include Blender and the upcoming Procreate 5.

Theres also OpenToonz and Synfig as other open source options

ToonBoom is very popular.

Flash MX was super easy to pirate, Toonboom is like 2000$ software with a much harder learning curve.

The My Little Pony show just ended and it used Flash for 9 seasons. Most modern cartoons use ToonBoom though.