> The reason why Thoughts on Flash was removed is that... Flash literally doesn't exist anymore.

Please explain how that alone is a reason to make the richest corporation on the planet go through their whole online presence and remove a few kB of redundant text.

Nobody does that just because it's not needed anymore, it's more expensive to pay an employee for deleting this than just keeping it up for another decade. It's very obvious Apple wants to hide the fact Steve Jobs would disagree with their current way of doing things and fell for the Streisand effect as everyone does.