My local library has a subscription to Lynda and I can and do watch many Lynda tutorials for free through my not so free taxes that support the library. I recently watched the current 8 hour intro course for Illustrator CC freshly updated for 2015. The total number of like minded souls at present is 1.4 million views. Similar results can be found for other Adobe products simply because there are so many people seeking training for these products. Has Serif reached a million sales yet? Demand drives the priority for commercial companies to create expensive training videos using their own permanent staff.
Yet Lynda does have courses for Inkscape, Blender, GIMP, and other less popular software including Affinity Photo. Many of the courses are produced by regular folks who were putting up Youtube videos on their own and became popular. I don't believe that Lynda is hostile but needs to see some level of demand. Much more important is finding someone with the expertise in the new product who is willing to produce the training content.
I am myself a new customer having purchased Designer in December and Photo just this week. I purchased Photo after watching the Lynda tutorial. The training video drove the sale. How's that for course feedback?
I look forward to seeing a similar training video on Lynda for Affinity Designer when someone with the time and expertise is willing and able to produce the content.
