[Locked artboard and drag select]

No. Please don't do that, or at least make it optional. Locking the artboard is great when you want to work with a document but don't want to constantly be selecting and moving the artboard. It's really annoying to be selecting near the edge of the page and constantly fighting with the software that thinks you want to move your artboard around.

[Designer - Free transform tool (perspective distort)]

10 hours ago, firstdefence said:

I use a compliment of apps with their multitude of tools, some of the tools are duplicated but some apps tools give particular features  that tool, I just select the app that does what I want it to do. This is a dynamic ever-changing process, with apps falling out of favour, only to rise again the next month with a big improvement in a tool, that’s the nature of such things it’s ebb and workflow of app usage. 😉

If an app gives everything people want, they change from complaining about everything the app doesn’t have, to everything it does have and it automatically becomes bloatware  🤣

You consider a transform tool bloat? Stick with MS Paint then.

[Designer - Free transform tool (perspective distort)]

You know you're missing a fundamental tool when people will use Inkscape just to get their work done.

[Free Transform, Perspective & Warp Tools]

On 5/2/2020 at 7:51 PM, maxvolume said:

This is not a necessary discussion for a free transform tool. It’s well established how this function works. It’s not a “feature idea”, it’s almost as basic a tool as drawing bezier curves.

Google “illustrator free transform” for quite literally hundreds of different uses.

 

Pretty much everyone is looking to get away from Photoshop and Illustrator. That's what I'm doing. I have a list of maybe a dozen features I absolutely require and Affinity manages to hit them all except something as basic as proper transforms. It doesn't look like they care either. All it takes is one thing not working and we're not leaving Adobe. What a missed opportunity.

[Back with the Mesh Warp / Distort Tool... Some considerations]

Don't apologize for asking for these missing tools. They aren't features but rather expected basics.