Radek K

there seems to be an oddly prevailing opinion such as SoftwareItem X did not have a certain feature until it reached its 10th incarnation.  Can you imagine if manufacturers of cars adopted a similar sentiment.  We would have no powered steering, no ABS, no airbags.
 
I think this illustrates the point pretty effectively.
 
We need some input from Affinity directly, rather than conjecture and hearsay, whether it is a new user posting or a moderator.

This kind of line of defense makes Serif look bad. It portrays them as a company who paint great visions of future and deliver great marketing promises while making their customers feel stupid and gullible for not reading the fine print.

The lack of footnotes is a major tool for publishing.  Please work on it

If I had noticed this feature was missing in that time frame, I would've!  Never occurred to me that this feature WOULDN'T be included.  Still amazes me it isn't and over a year later still doesn't.  How can ANYONE make something for making professional looking printed material NOT have it?  It's like making a car without shocks.  Sure, it'll work fine for some people, but it's still a pretty important feature you'd expect to be there and wouldn't think you'd have to make sure is there. As for me, this software is 100% useless and a complete waste of money.  I HAVE to have that feature to do what I bought the software to do.  I can't and won't advise anyone to buy it nor can I gave a positive review for it until this feature exists.  I was very excited when this came out, but I'm quite disappointed now

In the title of the description, it also says "Overview". We buy a software of a given type, not an insurance with clauses in small print!
😅 If this reasoning correctly, it is not written that it does offer support for a keyboard. I must have been lucky, because at home it takes care of it anyway.
In fact, it is hardly conceivable that a "professional DTP" software does not offers at least what all its competitors do: notes, recognition of all kinds of fonts, management of typographical spaces, professional translation, etc.
Having said that, it is understandable that what it is already doing is way ahead of his competitors. This makes it possible to be patient. A little.
 
 

All right, though I don't know and can't tell if the return policy is excellent at all here.
However, the bad about marketing is always, they kill you with tons (pages) of alleged feature lists, BUT of course they never name the important missing, or pretty buggy and thus unusable ones! 😀

I don't agree. Professional DTP app cannot fails to have this function. I don't care if inDesign etc. etc. have it from second version or other, I don't know of any DTP (or WP) software today that doesn't have this function...
 
this is correct, but in my opinion checking if a DTP software have footnotes is like checking if a car have the wheels when I go to the buyer... (only my opinion, ok).

Serif, the thing you are doing is a questionable if not outright immoral marketing strategy - irrespective of whether it is conscious or not. 
With each passing month your hype of 'professional DTP' lures more and more new professionals into this end/footnote trap. They go through their different frustration phases but it seems practical to think that since the software was affordable I might use it for something else than end/footnote work. But this does not make go away the fact that the software does not deliver the thing it was originally bought for. Hence, people are forced to go back to Indesign subscription while having already paid copy of Apub sitting useless on their computer.
In my opinion, the longer you keep doing this the more it begins to resemble cheating.

does not look like footnotes, endnotes or sidenotes are arriving any time soon.  If you need these features then its Serif's old PagePlus, Xara or InDesign. Could not agree with you more though.   For me, footnotes and endnotes are essential, so for now I am using Scribus - excellent software but interface is somewhat dated to say the least.