TeotiGraphix Totally agree, you'll see we have ported several of our extensions to other platforms as well so we know that a tech stack is really just a tool in the developers kit. Of course our investment is tied to the ANEs so we may have more of an interest in AIR's success than other developers but at the end of the day we are still a development agency providing solutions for our clients and the tech stack is really irrelevant to them.
What we do see though is Harman taking a technology that was neglected and have made massive strides, fixing long standing bugs, improving stability and introducing features, all while participating very actively in the community. I know it has been a little rocky as they have been ironing out their release processes and getting a handle across all aspects of the SDK but overall the improvements in the last 1-2 years have dwarfed anything Adobe did in the previous 10.
All of this leads me to a positive and excited feeling for AIR's future.
The long term future is going to be tied to increasing the number of developers that use the platform and I feel that comes back to tooling and documentation both of which we can contribute to. We as a community can choose to let it die, or actively support its growth.
Being a small company ourselves we understand the value of your time, and please don't invest it if you can't afford to, but if you do have an hour or two and can write a markdown tutorial on an AIR feature / concept, the community will be better for it and it may encourage another developer to use AIR.