I'm finding the new AG 2.0 and Flash 3.5 pretty good as a novice
I know this will not be popular.. But wanted to share incase others are in the same situation.
When the upgrade happened it broke my AG and IDE.. I originally deleted everything and installed the IDE... (after lots of grumbling)... but after watching IO I decided to give it a go as the Google engineers intended.
I went back and clean installed the standard AG 2.0 and rebuilt 5 very simple web apps I had made from scratch without the IDE.. I even decided to just let it make it's own updates (crazy I know)
And as a novice the experience was significantly easier and faster than the old IDE way with a much better outcome, the apps look much better and I found they didn't get constantly broken with upgrades.
My only gripe was running out of AI time which they just address with the 3x upgrade.
Anyhoo, if you are a novice working on simple stuff I'd say give it a crack, you might like it 😄