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It would be great to add a «scale each» checkbox

Agreed. On my mac there doesn't appear to be any difference in contrast or shade....

On my Mac the contrast between them & the Layer panel's background is so low that they are almost invisible. Yet another place in the UI where extremely low contrast makes the apps much more difficult than they should be. ☹️

Cool! Yes but it can be any key. I assigned the F key because in my brain I'm basically thinking FIND the layer please. 🙂

Thanks. 22 years of communicating with Serif customers gives you sloping shoulders and most of it does not hit that hard. I/we welcome critique and some people are rightly cross about their experience of the software, and entitled to express it.
As Head of Testing I understand the balance we try to walk between making changes/improvements user want/need and fixing the issues that exist. Some need their issue addressed, some need the missing thing adding, both are true and all are welcome here to express their opinions (preferably just the once and not over and over in multiple threads).
2.3 may be quite a quick beta cycle, so if you need a fix to be in a release build, I would say our expectation is for 2.3 to be released this year, though as always that is testing dependent.

Thanks!! The Auto scroll off did the trick!  I like the F key for quick access to selected object in the layers. 
 

Thanks @retrograde
I know about it. I think it's functionality that was added not long ago so that impact can be handled with bicycle patching gear when an accident has happened, and as useful in other contexts of course.
So Serif, it would be so helpful if you could set the default in a predictable and central location so that the accident never happens. 🙂

With the Auto Scroll option off I assigned the F key to jump to the layer of a selected object when I do want to see the layer in the layer panel. Works great and I don't have a jumpy layers panel anymore.

Can we make these colours more differentiatable please… Half the time i don’t know what i’ve selected. Or at least a tick mark to indicate what has been selected.
Thank you.

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This thread was intended to be about Serif's communication with its user base.
The details about how v1=>v2 upgrades might've been done differently are interesting, but there are other threads that are more on point for that.

Thank you for your thoughtful insights, Debra. The quote above is just one sentence I pulled out from your long reply; don't read too much into my selection. 😉
It would be interesting to know how much of what you speculated about actually reflects the history and present situation with development. I'm sure there has been a lot of information passed around in the forums (that I've never read) which sheds some light about what might be behind various decisions they've made.
I hadn't spent a ton of time in the forums until v2 came out, other than to check in vain periodically for new Betas. But after v2 came out, I dove into the forums and found myself asking, "Why are people surprised by <x>," and "Why doesn't Serif say something about <y>," and "How did Serif make the decision about <z>?" So I am only reacting to the symptoms of whatever history led Serif to this point.
I hope that they will take a fresh look at how they interact with the user base and make adjustments to their blind spots. As I said, there's a lot they get right already.

Maybe there's a lot of customers out here who don't want Serif to rival Adobe on price. ~£600 a year indefinitely. No thanks. I feel I have been saved (passive voice) several thousand £ over the last few years by Serif.
What I see in the forums is some people who seem to want all the features of Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign but for a one time £30 price per program. And free updates for ever. And on top of the free updates they would like a discount too.
The Serif programs don't do everything I want. But in quite a few cases I have found very reasonable workarounds.

There a difference between "we have no plans to implement these features" versus "we plan but do not guarantee to implement these features."
People are going to complain no matter what.  But, for me, I find a roadmap even without guarantees to be a useful guide.

That's why, when you release a roadmap, you wouldn't want to cast it as ironclad.
"The timeline, roadmap, and list of features shown here are preliminary in nature and subject to change based on many factors such as technical considerations, time considerations, economic conditions, corporate re-prioritization, and customer feedback. In no way are they to be construed as commitments."

Perhaps, although your second sentence sounds quite unlikely.
And, in which situation might you be more resentful: 1) You purchase the product and hope for feature X, and release after release, X never materializes; or 2) You see on the roadmap that feature X won't be for awhile? I'd prefer the latter...at least I'd know up-front that it's not coming.
Releasing a roadmap (or a partial/tentative roadmap) can also excite people and generate a buzz that wouldn't be generated otherwise. And/or, it could also provide valuable feedback to Serif as they see people's reactions to the roadmap, causing them to reprioritize to benefit the user community as a whole. We just saw this happen with MSIX, although after the fact.
Look, as I admitted up front, showing a roadmap can cut both ways, but there is merit to its consideration. Your replies tend to suggest that you see no potential benefit at all to Serif. Not sure if I'm mischaracterizing your position, but that's what's coming across. However, neither one of us is in the position to render a verdict either way.
Beyond not publicizing a product roadmap, there are other more obvious missteps that Serif has taken with respect to communication with users that I mention in my original post. Just sayin', this wasn't only about the lack of a roadmap.

Roadmaps are useful to me. If I know software developers are planning on adding features important to me, I'll invest in learning that software, knowing that it'll come soon, and make-do with opensource alternatives for things like vector trace or envelope distort while I wait, before moving my entire workflow in to Affinity. If a feature I want isn't on the road-map, it makes me question why would I waste time learning that software when I can spend my time learning and mastering software that does what I need it to.

After Adobe went to subscription-only, I coasted on CS6 for a while and then switched to Affinity, and have never looked back. OK, well, I do fire up Photoshop every now and again for one reason or another, but overall I've been delighted with the Affinity products, and the value proposition they offer.
Market-wise, Serif's products lie in the middle of the huge gulf between expensive, rigid Adobe, and free, freewheeling open-source alternatives (GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus...). With respect to communication with users, I find myself wishing that Serif would lean more toward the behavior of open-source products.
Serif's communication is hit-or-miss. The v1 Beta programs did a good job giving users an insight into short-term plans for features and bug fixes. But this was all users could see in the way of a product roadmap. And the long gap between v1 and v2 with no public Beta left users in the dark for a very long time. For the most part, we were left guessing. Just the fact that there was a thread entitled "Is Affinity dead?" exemplifies that situation.
In the forums, Serif staff are very responsive to questions about bugs, existing features, and product behavior, which is absolutely wonderful.
On the other hand, my perception is that questions about Serif's short- or long-term plans, or even in some cases questions about existing policies, are greeted with a frustrating silence. 
Recent examples include the v1=>v2 upgrade pricing kerfuffles (there are two of them: one for longstanding v1 users, and one for recent v1 purchasers), the Windows msix installation debacle, and the aforementioned radio silence after 1.10.5.
Some of this secrecy might be justifiable (if somewhat cynically) for business reasons. For example, prospective first-time customers looking to buy Affinity v1 this past July might've been discouraged if they knew that v2 would be released in November, but they would have to pay the going rate for the upgrade. Or, if they learned that their hoped-for feature would not be implemented. So they might have chosen to hold off, impacting the timing and amount of revenue to Serif. 
However, for the most part, I am having trouble understanding the rationale for much of the secrecy. Seeing a product roadmap can be an incentive to buy into a product at an early stage. Maybe someone doesn't want to purchase Designer because they're not sure if there'll ever be a bitmap trace feature. If they see it on the roadmap, perhaps they'll take the plunge now, to start their transition. 
And most of us understand that there will be uncertainty. Even without a definitive answer, a response is superior to silence.
It's fine for Serif to say, "This is the fairly firm roadmap for v2.2 through v2.3, the tentative roadmap for 2.4-2.8, and the speculative feature set for v3. Any of this is still liable to change. Feedback welcome."
It would have been fine for Serif to say on the day after the v2 announcement, "We understand that some users have an issue with the MSIX installation. We're going to be discussing it among ourselves to determine what, if anything we will do in response. Stay tuned." It obviously would have been even better if the plans to use MSIX had been divulged months before announcement, since it would have better prepared Serif for release.
Posts like Ash's, which explain details surrounding the pricing and upgrade decisions, are fantastic, but IMO they could've been published MUCH earlier.
Most of the people who follow the forums, myself included, are committed Affinity users and supporters. We're going to be upgrading to v2, and we're very likely to pay again for v3. So I'm just not clear on what Serif gains by being so reticent to tell us what's going on, and what the plans are for the future.

Just a simple 'paste on all artboards' from the edit menu would be welcome. That way single or multiple objects could be pasted at anytime to existing artboards unlike the artboard as a symbol method.

I don't know where these ideas come from, nor why they pick on me. But there we are; more unsolicited nonsense made flesh (digitally speaking). Mostly vectors with a few Effects here and there.
First off: a mock-Tudor house, a style popular between the Wars, and the Lombardy poplars that were also all over the place. City gent in his working clothes and housewife in her posh frock.

 
Next, the balcony of Buck House (that's Buckingham Palace to you) with a warm sunny queen and a damp soggy king.

 
I have an idea or two more, which I'll post when I get round to them.

Nice job on Affinity 2.0.  I already purchased all apps.
FEATURE REQUEST: It would be nice to see a type of VECTOR ERASER in Affinity Designer 2 that would allow us to quickly erase INTERSECTING LINES.  This can dramatically increase productivity with illustrations. 
See attached video.
 
Thanks!!!  I am enjoying 2.0 !!!

vector eraser demo.mp4

Wow, @Aammppaa that works great. Not intuitive (especially the whole symbol sync thing), but it's exactly what I need. Thank both @Aammppaa and @retrograde for your help with this. I've got a few ways to workaround this issue now.

Good solution @Aammppaa I removed the heavy stroke on the shadow (bottom) layer and added a drop shadow with an offset to the bottom right for an angled shadow. Works great!

Good solution @Aammppaa I removed the heavy stroke on the shadow (bottom) layer and added a drop shadow with an offset to the bottom right for an angled shadow. Works great!