StewartTower

I'll give a similar nod on this feature. My workflow in InDesign was to build documents with layers for specific types of content. One global layer for text, another for photos and another for vector art. For example; this would allow me to lock or hide the text layer while I scanned through a long document for an overall view and edit of the other content. I'm fine with the expanded layer view for content, page by page, but this seems better suited to Designer (Illustrator) which would be more prone to many separate vector elements such as a busy graphic.
Being new to Affinity products I'm more than happy to date. I'm being careful not to make a direct comparison to my Adobe background since I'm in a new country now with new ways.
One last point; when Adobe first released InDesign, it did not have a TOC generator. This floored me since Adobe had PageMaker at the time which could generate a TOC. The point is that a feature like global layering can still find its way into the program without giving up on Affinity. I'm happy and hopeful.

Thanks for your report @joe_l, as you've mentioned I believe this is By Design and was recently discussed here - 
I hope this clears things up

All you ever wanted to know about LibreOffice (or not): https://itsfoss.com/libreoffice-vs-openoffice/
OpenOffice has been pretty much forked/replaced by LibreOffice many years ago. I used LibreOffice for years to convert my Scrivener text to .docx files until I decided to spring the 35 bucks each for two copies of Word/Excel and whatever else comes with the official lifetime packages for my two laptops.

LibreOffice is new to me but I'll definitely check it out.
Thanks.

Text file support remains the same in v2 as in v1, (Microsoft Word DOCX, RTF).
.DOC as a format was replaced with DOCX in 2007, long before Affinity products existed. 
I would advise using your workaround or a web converter which may be more accurate for you.
Lee

Choose the "Crop Box" to apply the Texxt wrap to, not the original image.

I'll give a similar nod on this feature. My workflow in InDesign was to build documents with layers for specific types of content. One global layer for text, another for photos and another for vector art. For example; this would allow me to lock or hide the text layer while I scanned through a long document for an overall view and edit of the other content. I'm fine with the expanded layer view for content, page by page, but this seems better suited to Designer (Illustrator) which would be more prone to many separate vector elements such as a busy graphic.
Being new to Affinity products I'm more than happy to date. I'm being careful not to make a direct comparison to my Adobe background since I'm in a new country now with new ways.
One last point; when Adobe first released InDesign, it did not have a TOC generator. This floored me since Adobe had PageMaker at the time which could generate a TOC. The point is that a feature like global layering can still find its way into the program without giving up on Affinity. I'm happy and hopeful.

I'll give a similar nod on this feature. My workflow in InDesign was to build documents with layers for specific types of content. One global layer for text, another for photos and another for vector art. For example; this would allow me to lock or hide the text layer while I scanned through a long document for an overall view and edit of the other content. I'm fine with the expanded layer view for content, page by page, but this seems better suited to Designer (Illustrator) which would be more prone to many separate vector elements such as a busy graphic.
Being new to Affinity products I'm more than happy to date. I'm being careful not to make a direct comparison to my Adobe background since I'm in a new country now with new ways.
One last point; when Adobe first released InDesign, it did not have a TOC generator. This floored me since Adobe had PageMaker at the time which could generate a TOC. The point is that a feature like global layering can still find its way into the program without giving up on Affinity. I'm happy and hopeful.

Apart from the fact that the total number of users of each macOS is unknown + the forum search is not very specific, I wonder if your observation is just an impression (based on your expectations and focus) and does not match with a real number of issues related to the different macOS versions.
A search can indicate a decreasing number of issues (or 'just' a decreasing number of users?) : 206 -> 120 -> 88 results
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… while Big Sur seems to point to limitations in the forum's search: 23,870 results.

Good points. I've upgraded to Big Sur for now and purchased the Affinity suite. Haven't had much time to experiment yet but I'm liking what I see so far. Thanks for the input.

I'm a graphic designer of 29 years and am washing my hands of Adobe. My home computer is a 2017 iMac running Mojave. I've recently had to restore from Apple's servers and now my Adobe Creative Suite barely works. (CS4 and CS6). I refuse to pay Adobe's lease fees for their Cloud version since the pre-cloud Creative Suites are still perfectly good. Affintiy 2 will not run on Mojave so I'm looking for feedback on which Mac OSs are better or worse. Cheers...