Erstwhile

I purchased and really like Affinity Photo, but one thing I've noted is that it is considerably less efficient in terms of time spent. To be adopted by more pros and prosumers, the ability to do multiple things at once would be helpful. Yes, I understand from the roadmap that some sort of automation is coming: great! But in the meantime I think two easy (? I'm not a coder...) items that fit right in to the philosophy of AP would help a lot.
 
I'll note that when watching the tutorials of AP, everything is instantaneous. Impressive. But it is surely a modern monster of a machine being used. My machine is not old by any stretch (2012 i5 iMac, 16 GB, SSD+HDD, etc...) but performance is slower, while acceptable. And development should take into account reasonably older machines when it comes to performance. I like to work on multiple similar photos at a time, so I end up with the following:
 
Open, click on basic preset, click on detail preset, click on next photo, click on presets, click on next photo...down the line. Then I go back to make individual adjustments to photos if needed. I might develop each individual one here, or wait until RAW edits are done for all, and then develop. Either way, there's a 5-30 second pause while it develops, averaging around 15 seconds. I as user have to sit and wait* for the develop operation, then click the next photo and develop.
 
Same when it comes to exporting to .jpg, something that I'd guess the vast majority of photographers do. I don't change settings between exports, but here again is an operation that takes a bit of time and is simply repetitive.
 
A button to "develop all" and a button to "export all" (using the same settings, obviously) would greatly lower the number of clicks necessary to accomplish the same thing, and would allow me to read these forums while I'm waiting for the operation to complete. And I'm guessing it would be a bit simpler to do than to implement an entire automation/scripting framework.
 
I'm a big supporter as I detest Adobe's subscription model and I really like where you are going with the software. Maybe this would help it be a quicker, more useful tool?
 
 
 
*Ironically, if I click on the next photo fast enough, I can continue working. The progress bar stops you from working once it appears, but if you go fast enough you can continue to work. I've learned not to do this though as it can crash the program, in which case it stops being helpful timewise. Same thing for exporting, too.
 
 
Edited: I hadn't paid much attention to the delay when developing before writing this, but it is more than I had estimated. Changed to reflect.