As a long time Flash and Director user before going Unity, Director was dropped by Adobe the day it was bought. It has been on EOL since the aquisition. They had the lead on 3d on the web then and they let it slip. There have been no real updates to Director since 9 when Macromedia still had a hand in it. The recent releases were just to make people think it was still alive, no big loss except for Adobe and market share.

Freehand was awesome and Fireworks will be missed, it's too bad Macromedia did get bought by Adobe really, things would be so different. It was great for competition and Flash would have gone native and hardware accelerated much earlier.