@eclectech Oh, nice. I'm just reading my feed from the top, just scrolled far enough down to see that post too.
Now we can exchange notes, as it's my current favourite too ^__^

@eclectech Oh great! What have you picked?

@tschundler Yeah, I suggested it as an alternative to Inkscape, not for motion graphics (yet).

@eclectech Have you heard of Cavalry yet? Have no idea how it compares, but I see it praised, and it's free for Windows and Mac (which is why I haven't yet tried it, but might wake up Wine for that).

@eclectech Again haven't tried Illustrator, but people say that Affinity Designer feels much more like Illustrator than Inkscape does.
For mostly vector graphics there is also Graphite, it's mostly web only now but they've just released the first version of desktop app too, and promise add more animation nodes. It's node-based for all the procedural stuff, but you can also just draw stuff in it without looking at node graph.
I'm learning it in hopes that I like its animation stuff when it comes As I'm more limited in options being on Linux.
My list is Manim that I write for in Python, and Friction2d for manual stuff. But it doesn't tween or deform raster past scaling and shearing, so morphing this raster image was quite a struggle.

@david_chisnall Friction2D fits your particular list, but I have never opened Flash.