Serif does need to consider a DAM to go with their other products. Some have asked "why bother when there are other tools out there?" Because those tools do not support the native Affinity formats very well (or at all). I've been using digiKam for years just to manage my photos, but it can't help me with .afphoto format files. I shoot Olympus .ORF raw and also have a lot of .DNG... which are great. But as soon as I develop in Affinity and maybe have layers involved I need to save .afphoto and we're lacking tools to manage those files. I suppose I could output to .PSD, but Affinity seems to warn about the possibility of issues doing that and recommend using the applications native format. Serif wants us to use their formats? Then please provide the tools needed to manage them properly. Don't get me wrong... I'm SUPER HAPPY with Affinty Photo and Designer... but could really use a tool to help manage photos AND artwork created with these tools.
Don't get me started on thumbnails. Heck, half the time Windows 10 can't even display thumbnails for .afphoto (it used to... I don't know if a recent Windows Update screwed that up or what?) There needs to be a simple way to repair this functionality, but I haven't found it yet.