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@md_berlin Much needed thank you message. The team is made up of real people, and a word of gratitude goes a long way to encouraging them. (I am not affiliated with Serif/Affinity, just trying to be respectful for their efforts.)

You title your post, "Disgusting Pricing", state that I clearly "can't read" and then refer to my obviously tongue-in-cheek reply (re: Adobe and greed) as "toxic". Priceless. Most here want to engage in positive, productive dialog—not bash others through a childish, entitlement attitude. Affinity offers solid, though not perfect, software at very reasonable prices. If you want to contribute to the non-Adobe movement, a more humble approach would help.

Kudos. A very gracious reply to a very non-gracious post. Well done.

🥱Been posted and addressed over and over. Clearly, you should just buy (sorry, rent) the Adobe suite. They aren't greedy and you'll save a ton of money.

This [overprint colors issue] is a huge, glaring omission. And one that I didn't realize existed. (Clearly, I haven't been using Affinity software for commercial printing.) For reference, I have been involved in print design for many years and have designed everything from newspaper ads to books with enormous print runs on offset, web and digital. I have traveled across the country on multi-day press checks. My affinity for Affinity is, in part, due to my loathing for Adobe and their rental model. I imagine this is true for many of the folks here. I have happily supported and promoted Affinity/Serif for offering a "viable alternative" to Adobe. But I may have to rethink this as this alone makes the software non-viable for anyone involved in print. Having to create multiple versions of the same color to have it overprint is ludicrous makes for a completely unworkable workflow. Overprinting should always be available to set on the object level. Always. Period. Serif/Affinity Team... Please take this seriously. We are all rooting for you to be David in a Goliath industry. If you don't get these absolute basics right, you will never have the commercial success that you, and us, want you to have.

From my testing, Designer 2 does export SVG gradients without rasterizing, with the expected tiny file sizes. Also no issues with color changes here; hex values from .ai and AI-created SVGs are identical in D2. Named and unnamed layers are imported correctly from .ai files, however groups are not.