Christina Upton

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Note also that the mask thumbnail bears a ‘crop’ icon, whereas the clip thumbnail doesn’t. Users often seem to post about cropping, masking, clipping and nesting as if they’re four different things, but when you’re discussing vector masks they’re really only two.

Thanks @fde101 for outlining how to make a trifold flyer.
See my post at 
 https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/89633-how-do-i-make-a-greeting-card-in-afpub/&do=findComment&comment=476342
for my thoughts about templates. AFPub beta testers requested templates more than a year ago. I assume beta testers are professionals who have need of the advanced capabilities of AFPub that I'll never need. At least some of them also want templates.
Also in that thread, @stokerg included an afpub file for producing a greeting card in the manner of MSPub. It requires a lot more manual effort than MSPub, but it is not difficult once you see the concept. MSPub does it as four pages which at print time are printed on one side of a single piece of paper in the appropriate locations and orientations. In AFPub it is made as four separate frames on one side of a single sheet of paper with two of the frames printed upside down.
You compared AFPub to QuarkExpress in the sense that neither provides templates. I remember looking at QuarkExpress in 1987 when it first came out. It did not seem appropriate for the needs of my group. We ended up using MS Publisher for newsletters, tutorial documents, and other printed matter. QuarkExpress still limits its market to publishing professionals, as reflected in its price of $975 for one year of upgrades and support.
AFPub at $50 can surely tap into the market of millions of people who are not publishing professionals but who can benefit from a publishing application. That's what happened with AFPhoto. It was not just for professionals wanting to escape Adobe but also for hobbyist and enthusiast photographers wanting something more powerful than the several amateur level photo editors, all of which cost considerably more than AFPhoto.
 

Please provide templates, such as for a side fold greeting card, trifold flyer or brochure, recital program, and especially a newsletter. One blank template for each kind of publication is all I need, along with printer support to handle a side fold greeting card of four pages printed 4 up on a single sheet as I described elsewhere in the following post.
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/89633-how-do-i-make-a-greeting-card-in-afpub/
From its earliest release, MS Publisher included many, many templates for all kinds of publications. Without templates for standard publications Affinity Publisher is no more than a toolbox for professionals and not a desktop publishing package for the rest of us who would normally be looking for publishing software in your price range and who need some examples to get started.

I have the same little problems with graphic tablet. brushes are not really 100% working, press points are not really working. 
I use wacom intuos to with the newest drivers.

As I said, with the mouse it works if you have enough fingers available ;--)
But this shortcut (short?) can't work with the tablet's pen, because you can't press the two buttons of a pen at the same time. It is also impractical to always have to switch to the mouse to change the size/hardness of brushes or stamps.
I urge you to look for better compatibility with tablets like Wacom when updating. I think it would be best to use Affinity as a model for PS CC (Alt+lower pen+draw).
Otherwise AP is not suitable for people who do serious retouching, because the operation takes too much time.
Thank you and best regards,
Christian