I would love to jettison Photoshop Illustrator and just use Affinity. But... it would just be an endless headache to deal with file conversions.

I count myself as one of them... that pay for Affinity because it is a nice low cost tool.

I've also tried Affinity Photo and Designer, but I definitely prefer the software I mentioned above.

I expressly bought this software (Designer, Photo, Publisher) out of principle, against Adobe s enshittification and monopolisation, and because it was premised on pay once; own it forever.

Affinity ain’t perfect either. It’s not quite on par with the features of Adobe’s products. I’m routinely frustrated by missing features.

On the other hand you are overlooking fundamentals where Affinity is so much better than Adobe - stability, speed, connection between the software.

Looking at Canva’s pricing page makes me glad I have a perpetual license to Affinity’s products.

I depend on Affinity products, and am not sure how to take this news.

I do think Photo is a lot more usable than Designer and I could see myself using that instead of Photoshop.

I paid for Affinity Photo because of its reasonably priced perpetual license, being a great alternative to Adobe's tools for my work.

Their software may not be as good as Adobe’s, but Affinity’s business model provided enough value on its own.

I really like Affinity, especially their buy it once pricing model, and I use Affinity Photo for all my photo editing.

Photo Design were becoming popular as an alternative to Photoshop... when artists started recommending it as an alternative I listened and checked them out.