The truth is that today Affinity software is not on par with Adobe software. I bought Photo and Designer a year or so ago, and while there are some very innovative features, Affinity still lacks bread and butter stuff like a proper eye dropper, an isolation mode like Illustrator, or even decent text editing tools. But, give them a year or two and I can see myself and a lot of people in graphic design, UI, photo retouching, and illustration, moving away from Adobe. Specially considering Affinity software can open Illustrator, Photoshop, and legacy Freehand files. Also, Affinity is about to release Publisher, which is an InDesign replacement. Video guys and motion graphics people will still need Premiere and After Effects though. Adobe will have to step up its game. Not only in pricing but also in listening to the needs of their customers. Honestly I couldn't care less about cloud gimmicks and mobile apps. I don't understand why Adobe is investing so much effort in those things. There are a number of feature requests in these forums that have been requested for years and Adobe ignores our petitions. For example making the nodes in Illustrator for editing vector curves bigger, being able to zoom to 100% in place (instead of moving the viewport to the last used artboard), being able to rotate the workspace in Illustrator while drawing like you can in Photoshop, Metal support in OSX, and a very long etcetera.
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