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I'm looking forward to checking out the new features, but disappointed to see no revisions to the Fill dialog.
We still have a tab called "None," which features swatches.
We still have a gradient fill with no angle control.
The eyedropper tool... what was the thought process here?
Furthermore the tool palette still contains some baffling choices. An image-placement tool? How does this make sense?  You use it once, and then it disappears. A one-time function does not belong on a tool palette, because it's not a tool; it's a command or function. We already have a "place image" command.
The gradient tool doesn't make much more sense. You can select it when there are no objects selected, and It adds nothing to the Fill dialog except a gradient-angle control, which could (and should) be displayed when the Fill dialog is invoked anyway.
A friend of mine is looking to replace his old desktop-publishing software, and I've been considering setting him up with Affinity Publisher. But he has a business to run, and wrestling with this kind of non-intuitive UI is a no-go. I'm going to have to audit the Publisher UI for similar design decisions before recommending it, something I wouldn't normally expect to have to do. And Affinity's unwillingness to address these issues isn't exactly encouraging.
If there are use cases that justify the... um... "quirks" I'm citing here, let's hear 'em.

Oh, I just realized that this is a very long-standing problem. Not expecting any responses. :\

Oh, I just realized that this is a very long-standing problem. Not expecting any responses. :\

Hi Laureen,

From what I know there is a method that can work for you:
1 - Select the strokes you want to expand and in the Stroke panel check "Scale with object"
2 - Increase the size of the icons (for example from 50px x 50px to 1000px x 1000px)
3 - Expand strokes
4 - Scale back the icons to their original size.

I hope it will help you.