Canva is going to absorb Affinity and start calling them Canva Designer, Canva Photo and Canva Publisher which you can pay a small fee of 40 bucks a month for, or 400 a year for a little discount. But if you pay 500 a year instead you get access to all of Canva Pro too! Yay! /s
A lot of the guys in Affinity are going to be fired. They don't need double up on marketing, PR, legal, probably a few of the programmers and artists etc.
We've seen this happen before.
This sucks. At least Ash and the other investors get a nice little payout, I guess? Management is probably going to leave Canva after a year and start a new company doing this all over again.
Subscriptions are the worst thing that's ever happened to the world. Not everything needs to be a F**king "service".
Edit: I really hope I'm wrong, and that they keep Affinity as Affinity and continue supporting it as is.