BradJMurray

Lack of this feature is a big pain for me - it's requested for like last 3 (or more?) years and still not much going on. Whenever I try to design a logo I'm frustrated. I understand that it may be difficult to implement and properely intergate  with rest of AD, however I'd personally preffer to see this delivered rather than stuff like integration with stock photo services...
My current workaround is to make distorted shapes in Inkscape (free, open source), and then load created .svg to AD. I'm just a hobbyst so can live with that workflow because I really like "rest" of AD, but come on... commercial tool for vector graphics, that is positioned in many places as potential Adobe alternative, without basic feature like that...

No Mac version, thus worthless.

Rolling my eyes. We are not supporting a poor company in a third world country that hasn't got the funds to implement such features before several years pass. Affinity got both a lot of attention and hype and went far beyond a critical mass of paying customers. They are doing just fine. Wake up and smell the coffee!
This is not a kickstarter. You are paying customers and remember that this company is decades old and made similar more mature software with these features until recently (plus series). Did so for many years. You don't have these features because someone decided you shouldn't. Yet. Or ever. You don't know. It is all about business priorities and scaling. Designer obviously gets the least attention and features. I still don't believe Serif has the vector expertise or the required number of developers with this expertise to push Designer further in bigger steps than we have seen (tiny steps). I don't see the evidence. Publishing software was always Serifs pet project and flagship product so lets see if Designer ever gets the love and features it needs to become more than a tool for digital painters (bitmap). Niche software. Half of Designer - the pixel features - are shared with Photo. 99% of vector brushes are in fact pixel brushes. The other half is so feature weak it is depressing. The toolbar in the designer persona is mostly shapes. Shapes!
So it it perfectly valid to air criticism and wishes here. The very high number of posts with feature requests and customers asking in disbelief why nothing happened about this and that yet tells a story about where Designer should go to evolve and serve existing and potential customers. Stiff opposition from a core base of forum users (of which ever so few are more than hobby users with simple hobby needs and no insight whatsoever into more professional use and needs) is just not what is needed for Serif or from the customers requesting these features. It is ludicrous. 
Cheap doesn't matter. As a vector drawing program Designer is not cheap because it has so few and just basic vector features. It doesn't cost "coconut money" whatever that is. Possibly an offensive term in Sweden. Designer is a simple product and you get only what you pay for. Not much more. Besides the great user interface that Serif really did well. Many small programs are actually often overpriced when you see how much you get for four times the price in professional software. But you will never reach that level of knowledge without experience and expertise. What REALLY is expensive in the short and especially long term is workarounds. Again something hobbyists doesn't see or feel.
So let the customers voice their concerns, wishes, criticism and input. Let Serif handle its unsatisfied (potential) customers and communicate the reasons for this and that. In a more professional tone. 

I can't believe we are still waiting for basic warping tools not to mention (dare we dream) an envelope tool and autotrace. It's clear the Affinity team spread themselves too thin launching Publisher before finishing the basic feature set in Designer.

Skew tool is pretty monodimensional.
No vertical skew? No Distort, Warp, Mesh distort? These are all fundamental. This discussion goes back to 2017, for crying out loud. 
What is going on with this???
This is a painter’s app, apparently, not a designer’s.
But even a painter would use a ‘perspective’ warp/distort to adjust elements in the initial sketch.
I sure hope there’s some action happening on these very foundational, very fundamental, essential transforms.

+1 ....a necessity (for iPad too) Thanks in advance devs 🙏🏻 

This is an essential feature and I was really surprised when I learnt that it's not available in AD. Please add it!

Any ETA on non destructive free transform, perspective and warp tools like those found illustrator/Photoshop?