Tio

It would be awesome to implement the pattern layer in affinity designer because that would boom the market and you would be able to have a 100% nondestructive workflow I can tell you because you could cover a lot of thing like seamless and infinity vector textures that you can edit freely with curves and vectorial capabilities.

Are you planning to get 32 bit images like EXR

Are you planning to be able 32bit images on affinity Photo?

I Are you planning to have a follow to curve tool elements? I would be very effectible to have a follow to curve tool for text forms and make some paths ​I mean something like this image that I attach