Hi lead build engineer,
Affinity products are compiled very poorly, I am sorry but this is sadly true.
1)
There is a huge redundancy in the binaries, leading to excessive application size on disk.
The app could be more than 2 times lighter If your engineers were spending time of fixing this ridiculous issue. (there is multiple times the same core packaged in the build for different colorspaces !!)
2)
A note for the mac apps, you ship them with both Apple Silicon AND x86 binaries, leading to 1 additional GB of DEAD data wasting our disks.
Your users are NOT dumb, they know if they use an Apple silicon M1 mac or an Intel one! Stop thinking we are stupid and stop wasting our very limited apple SSDs, and please provide two packages so we stop this NONSENSE.
If you really care as much as you pretend you do, by fixing those 2 huge issues, next week the app size will shrink drastically.
Thanks for caring for real.