After making a switch from Inkscape to Affinity Designer... I mostly like it, but there are few features which I see missing and used them a lot...
One of them is the ability to decide how the object alignment will work - esp. which object will be the reference for the alignment.
Right now, if I want to align two (or more) objects - they are both moved towards each other...
In some cases, this is not desired, as if one object was already properly placed, I'd like to keep it where it was, and only have remaining objects moved.
In Inkscape, you can define in relation to what the alignment will be done.
For me, the most used (and missing in AD) reference options were Firs and Last selected - so respectively the first or last selected object won't move, and all others would be aligned to it.