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Yeah for the record done by a new employee doing our social media, it was not authorised by me or any of the senior management here and was in the context of loads of rumours that Adobe were going to buy us at that time. But yeah I get it, we've been caught out with a stupid tweet which everyone is loving throwing back in our face. We're not the first and won't be the last!

What a stupid post. No logic whatsoever.
"I went to Serif and their software does 99% of what I need. I switched because It wasn't Adobe and now I'm going to Adobe because I received an email about a company change, yet I live in a bubble and only came here to complain when the email came."
You don't care but you do care, we're not sure what about though. You've never heard of Canva but you know it's so bad that you reactivated Adobe, going back to the giant corporation you hated, even though Affinity was paid and it works for you????

You embarrassed me, I removed the angry cat 😛

As is your display name 😂

If they say nothing people say "silence is very telling..!".
If they say something people say "dont believe them!"
Plus the amount of simply ludicrous ideas like that one about making our own software in India...
Plus outright insults towards devs, telling them to "f off".
Plus childish "change icon to cat to show devs how you feel".
I have never seen such overreaction, such hate towards devs of software you supposedly like. Even when ZBrush was acquired by Maxon and there was panic it didnt reached that levels.
Very few posts with even remotely positive attitude like that of @Rodi . Instead we have screaming mob that no matter what you say (or dont say), whatever you do (or dont do) - it will not be satisfied and will keep on chanting the same thing. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if in protest somebody sprayed some painting in museum with soup... Same energy.
Over the years this devs were always there to listen. I dont have a single post with problem here that wasnt answered by somebody from the team. At the very beginning of Affinity and recently alike. I dont know what future brings and none of those who claim that "THEY KNOW!!!" knows what will happen. However, if anybody of those screamers had some actual brain cells to use they might come to realization that Canva most probably didnt paid that much for Affinity to just kill it. Its not their direct competition. Neither they want to change Affinity into Canva - it makes zero sense. Their reasoning on the other hand makes perfect sense. Canva wants to expand into more professional area. People want that dreaded "AI" in Affinity. These companies complement each other. But noo, screamers will keep on screaming.
Silence is telling and when they tell you something - dont believe them.
Honestly its surprising how many outright stupid people exists on this planet and how so many of them purchased Affinity. Many here is quick to offend devs based on their imagination of whats going to happen, even if nothing of it happened yet. So dont be feely-touchy about being called stupid. Or be, doesn't matter really.
BTW - Canva bought two free photo stocks in 2019. Pexels and Pixabay. 5 years later - both are still there, both under same names, both still free - just button to canva tools was added...

If they say nothing people say "silence is very telling..!".
If they say something people say "dont believe them!"
Plus the amount of simply ludicrous ideas like that one about making our own software in India...
Plus outright insults towards devs, telling them to "f off".
Plus childish "change icon to cat to show devs how you feel".
I have never seen such overreaction, such hate towards devs of software you supposedly like. Even when ZBrush was acquired by Maxon and there was panic it didnt reached that levels.
Very few posts with even remotely positive attitude like that of @Rodi . Instead we have screaming mob that no matter what you say (or dont say), whatever you do (or dont do) - it will not be satisfied and will keep on chanting the same thing. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if in protest somebody sprayed some painting in museum with soup... Same energy.
Over the years this devs were always there to listen. I dont have a single post with problem here that wasnt answered by somebody from the team. At the very beginning of Affinity and recently alike. I dont know what future brings and none of those who claim that "THEY KNOW!!!" knows what will happen. However, if anybody of those screamers had some actual brain cells to use they might come to realization that Canva most probably didnt paid that much for Affinity to just kill it. Its not their direct competition. Neither they want to change Affinity into Canva - it makes zero sense. Their reasoning on the other hand makes perfect sense. Canva wants to expand into more professional area. People want that dreaded "AI" in Affinity. These companies complement each other. But noo, screamers will keep on screaming.
Silence is telling and when they tell you something - dont believe them.
Honestly its surprising how many outright stupid people exists on this planet and how so many of them purchased Affinity. Many here is quick to offend devs based on their imagination of whats going to happen, even if nothing of it happened yet. So dont be feely-touchy about being called stupid. Or be, doesn't matter really.
BTW - Canva bought two free photo stocks in 2019. Pexels and Pixabay. 5 years later - both are still there, both under same names, both still free - just button to canva tools was added...

If they say nothing people say "silence is very telling..!".
If they say something people say "dont believe them!"
Plus the amount of simply ludicrous ideas like that one about making our own software in India...
Plus outright insults towards devs, telling them to "f off".
Plus childish "change icon to cat to show devs how you feel".
I have never seen such overreaction, such hate towards devs of software you supposedly like. Even when ZBrush was acquired by Maxon and there was panic it didnt reached that levels.
Very few posts with even remotely positive attitude like that of @Rodi . Instead we have screaming mob that no matter what you say (or dont say), whatever you do (or dont do) - it will not be satisfied and will keep on chanting the same thing. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if in protest somebody sprayed some painting in museum with soup... Same energy.
Over the years this devs were always there to listen. I dont have a single post with problem here that wasnt answered by somebody from the team. At the very beginning of Affinity and recently alike. I dont know what future brings and none of those who claim that "THEY KNOW!!!" knows what will happen. However, if anybody of those screamers had some actual brain cells to use they might come to realization that Canva most probably didnt paid that much for Affinity to just kill it. Its not their direct competition. Neither they want to change Affinity into Canva - it makes zero sense. Their reasoning on the other hand makes perfect sense. Canva wants to expand into more professional area. People want that dreaded "AI" in Affinity. These companies complement each other. But noo, screamers will keep on screaming.
Silence is telling and when they tell you something - dont believe them.
Honestly its surprising how many outright stupid people exists on this planet and how so many of them purchased Affinity. Many here is quick to offend devs based on their imagination of whats going to happen, even if nothing of it happened yet. So dont be feely-touchy about being called stupid. Or be, doesn't matter really.
BTW - Canva bought two free photo stocks in 2019. Pexels and Pixabay. 5 years later - both are still there, both under same names, both still free - just button to canva tools was added...

I think Affinity Suite was too good, too small and too poor to stay the way it was.

I get the business reality.

I also understand what happens with mega buying meager, mega is always hungry.

So that being said, until they prove us right, lets just dig in and do good stuff.

BTW, lol, I use Affinity to fix a good number of Canva created PDFs  I get in... lets hope it stays that way!

So, I wanna dream big.

Affinity show us pros that Canva can do it better. Get the right tyopgraphic engines that can run the big fonts with all the styles.

Make a fourth killer program that introduces pro stuff to edit PDFs and open them in less destructive ways.

I am preparing for the worst and hoping for the best.

Congrats on making some moolah!



 

Same here. I didn't got into Art because I wanted to make money on it. Its great that I can (because I despise doing something else) but if I couldn't I would be drawing and sculpting and creating no matter what new, shiny, trend would tell you to do nothing and being nobody. Generative AI for art is pretty much this in my view. As quickly as possible spit as many pictures as you can. You are reduced to mindless operator, merely a quality inspector checking AI spits for quality. You do not create anything just making requests and sorting whats good on the right and whats bad on the left 😆
Over half century, ha? I am right behind you there. Wait couple years please 😄
Yeah, principles isnt something people cherish these days (I know I am speaking like an old man that I am haha) . Everybody is just about "production" and "money" and "how fast you can produce". Just sad overall. You probably heard about books about Captain Alatriste. Or maybe you didnt - just because youre in Spain doesnt mean you read those haha. Anyways there is a great series of books and some illustrations in them are fantastic. So accurate to what you just read. If they used AI for it it would be just usual, more-or-less mess. But here comes the understanding of situation, emotion, historical knowledge. These illustartions look like sketches but when you take a closer look.. Ow my. Just came to my head for no reason, sorry for this tangent
Have a good night! Hope you are right with whats coming to Affinity. And if not... We will be still drawing, and sculpting and what not

You can also find details of the four pledges we are making to our community here

To followup on some of my comments yesterday, we are today enshrining our commitment to the Affinity community in 4 pledges made by the Affinity and Canva teams.
You can read about them here.

We do truly believe the coming together of Affinity and Canva is only going to be a good thing for our customers, staff and the development of our apps. We very much hope you will all continue to be with us on this journey.
All the best,
Ash

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/press/newsroom/affinity-and-canva-pledge/

Good news?!

Is this some sort of mass panic attack?  😆
"Video isn't good enough, everybody lies, tomorrow servers can be off, lets make our own software in India, you're a spineless sheep if you are not looking for replacement NOOOW!"
Bloody hell man...
Repeat after me: goosfraba.
GOOS..FRABAAA.
Good.
What do you want them to say? Whatever they say they will be accused of lying immediately. It turned into a madhouse here.
Luckily we have a solution.
India.
🤣

That is officially the most absurd post I have read this week. And its barely Wednesday. But no way I will read something more ludicrous this week or month even
Wait. I know! Lets buy a small island and we make our own country with "kooky mass Democracy" while we are at it. 
How?
India of course.
Considering your own ideas... yeah that seems to be safer choice. Even with hallucinations.

That is officially the most absurd post I have read this week. And its barely Wednesday. But no way I will read something more ludicrous this week or month even
Wait. I know! Lets buy a small island and we make our own country with "kooky mass Democracy" while we are at it. 
How?
India of course.
Considering your own ideas... yeah that seems to be safer choice. Even with hallucinations.

That is officially the most absurd post I have read this week. And its barely Wednesday. But no way I will read something more ludicrous this week or month even
Wait. I know! Lets buy a small island and we make our own country with "kooky mass Democracy" while we are at it. 
How?
India of course.
Considering your own ideas... yeah that seems to be safer choice. Even with hallucinations.

That is officially the most absurd post I have read this week. And its barely Wednesday. But no way I will read something more ludicrous this week or month even
Wait. I know! Lets buy a small island and we make our own country with "kooky mass Democracy" while we are at it. 
How?
India of course.
Considering your own ideas... yeah that seems to be safer choice. Even with hallucinations.

That is officially the most absurd post I have read this week. And its barely Wednesday. But no way I will read something more ludicrous this week or month even
Wait. I know! Lets buy a small island and we make our own country with "kooky mass Democracy" while we are at it. 
How?
India of course.
Considering your own ideas... yeah that seems to be safer choice. Even with hallucinations.

Ok, after going through 3 pages of doom, gloom and "if there will be subscription I will go to Adobe" and some repetitive blathering about  "in five years AI will decimate industry" (which I hear for the last two years and its still 5 years somehow... ) I jumped to the last page - which is 14 at the moment.
There is a great video on Youtube called "Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things" and I guess answer could summarized as "because they want to".
I dont know if I am intelligent enough to find enough mental agility to convince myself that its all going to be fine and dandy, but I'll try my best.
Sure, I dont like that corporate talk with buzz words like "thrilled" and "democratizing" and "join family"... It sounds generic, I have seen it with many apps before. XSI/Softimage joined the Autodesk family and was discontinued shortly after. Mudbox joined the same family and stagnated to the point that (LITERALLY) updates consist of changing splash screen and updating pricing. Maya is doing OKish. ZBrush "joined Maxon family" and its subscription based now, but at least is being worked on even if much slower. I dont recall any software being just as good or better after being bought but some prevail.
I didnt switched to Affinity from Adobe because of subscription.
Sure it was fantastic bonus but I simply like Affinity better. Its not cluttered and bloated with cheap, shiny, latest bling bling like "You dont like how your child looks? We neither! Add the smile on this sad face using our AI "SMILEY" tool!!!". In general I dont need AI because I am capable of making my own designs and so far I dont see all that "prompt masters" taking my job 🤪 Maybe because they are stuck in the perpetual "you'll see in five years!" - they want to grab my job, but they are always five years away from doing so. But I digress..
My main concern is stupidification of Affinity. Canva really is made for... I dont want to be offensive.. Lets say "less capable of intelligent thought" people. Million templates with really simplistic tools. Of which I would only find useful "Magic Expand". Its better then AI because its MAGIC powered! 🤣If Affinity team keeps control over the look, feel and content of the software and price is right - I am staying on board.
PS.
And I blame for it all of you freaking AI whiners - "oh, but if Affinity will not have AI will become irrelevant! Boo Hoo!".. All of you "In-Five-Years" technoptimists that cant make their own design without prompt... Its at least partly your fault. So now you have it. You will have "AI Powah!". Enjoy.
 

Canva itself makes a distinction on their page, saying:
"While our last decade at Canva has focused heavily on the 99% of knowledge workers without design training, truly empowering the world to design includes empowering professional designers too."
Thats why they bought Affinity in a first place. To have something for professionals.
Well, absolutely. Just like not everybody makes Citizen Kane - many more just make idiotic videos for TikTok. Its up to you what work you would rather do. Youre into making garbage - certainly there are tools for it too.
 
It doesnt have to be belittled. It is what it is. Its simply stating a fact. Fact that Canva recognizes as well. I know now in fashion is not to hurt anybodys feelings but reality is - you are either professional or you are not. I am riding a bike occasionally but I am not arguing with professional cyclists that my ride to shop is just as valid as Tour de France because... many more people is riding to shops.. Or something. 🤣

@SrPx Yeah man, it is always concern but look - up to this point Canva has 175 MILLIONS of users. Many more prestigious 😉 Prompt Masters are working hard in home to take your job ("in five years, you will see" 🥱 ) . Did they manage to take jobs from you? If somebody is in the business of making leaflets promoting local "Nail Salon LATISHIA" or making logo for well known "Halal Chicken" shop on the corner then it is concerning. Not going to lie - that 16 years old owners nephew can snitch that job, taking a 10 minutes break from generating boobs in the latest and greatest Stable Diffusion. But if you left that sort of jobs behind already and you make anything that needs personal touch and originality I dont see much more competition to be honest. There always was tons of people who think they can do the job themselves with little help of template, who didnt wanted to pay already low price for our designs. Let them.
 More people is listening to some mindbogglingly stupid rap songs then to symphony orchestra, much more people is watching tiktok videos then reading books, many more is worrying if they can update i-phone to the latest model with 9 cameras so they can share video of them shaking their booty in the kitchen, then expand their skill set, learn something new. We are living idiocracy and masses will follow trends. Now its AI. As sad as it is - we cant change it.
But there are clients who will appreciate your work. Just dont look for jobs in that garbage filled with "I want fast and cheap and I dont care if it has extra arm!". You have to be elitist when it comes to jobs. And yes - you are always starting from the bottom. But think about it this way - you can take their job just as easily as they can take yours. The difference is - if you are trained, you have skill and knowledge - you will go up. Prompters will stay on the same level, perpetually fighting between themselves who can generate that "Ladys Night - 50% off!!!" leaflet quicker.
We are 2 years in that AI revolution. And the more time passes the less I am afraid of it. The threat is always years away somehow 😉
BTW, if you are using Paint - take a look at new software InstaMAT https://instamaterial.com/ . Its really mindblowing whats it is capable of and best of all - its free for people who earn less then 100K a year. And its like whole Substance package in one. Quite capable.

Ok, after going through 3 pages of doom, gloom and "if there will be subscription I will go to Adobe" and some repetitive blathering about  "in five years AI will decimate industry" (which I hear for the last two years and its still 5 years somehow... ) I jumped to the last page - which is 14 at the moment.
There is a great video on Youtube called "Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things" and I guess answer could summarized as "because they want to".
I dont know if I am intelligent enough to find enough mental agility to convince myself that its all going to be fine and dandy, but I'll try my best.
Sure, I dont like that corporate talk with buzz words like "thrilled" and "democratizing" and "join family"... It sounds generic, I have seen it with many apps before. XSI/Softimage joined the Autodesk family and was discontinued shortly after. Mudbox joined the same family and stagnated to the point that (LITERALLY) updates consist of changing splash screen and updating pricing. Maya is doing OKish. ZBrush "joined Maxon family" and its subscription based now, but at least is being worked on even if much slower. I dont recall any software being just as good or better after being bought but some prevail.
I didnt switched to Affinity from Adobe because of subscription.
Sure it was fantastic bonus but I simply like Affinity better. Its not cluttered and bloated with cheap, shiny, latest bling bling like "You dont like how your child looks? We neither! Add the smile on this sad face using our AI "SMILEY" tool!!!". In general I dont need AI because I am capable of making my own designs and so far I dont see all that "prompt masters" taking my job 🤪 Maybe because they are stuck in the perpetual "you'll see in five years!" - they want to grab my job, but they are always five years away from doing so. But I digress..
My main concern is stupidification of Affinity. Canva really is made for... I dont want to be offensive.. Lets say "less capable of intelligent thought" people. Million templates with really simplistic tools. Of which I would only find useful "Magic Expand". Its better then AI because its MAGIC powered! 🤣If Affinity team keeps control over the look, feel and content of the software and price is right - I am staying on board.
PS.
And I blame for it all of you freaking AI whiners - "oh, but if Affinity will not have AI will become irrelevant! Boo Hoo!".. All of you "In-Five-Years" technoptimists that cant make their own design without prompt... Its at least partly your fault. So now you have it. You will have "AI Powah!". Enjoy.
 

Never said that. I really think these are not tools for professionals for simple reason that are very limited to what you can do with it.
For simple thing - simple tool. Let me ask you then - do you think every single visual job for these companies is made using Canva? Of course its good enough to slap photo with text on Instagram for ANY company. They are not making packaging or visualization in Canva.
Its funny how you are going against what Canva itself stated. Maybe go to them end explain them how they are wrong according to you.
@SrPx I understand you completely. Whats more I have a son in therapy now so my understanding of the issue is even deeper. I was raised in country (and times) where therapy was not an option. Not sure if it was better or worse - I just react differently to all that news. Also I am older so I have benefit of experience and perspective on things. I have seen many other "ends of the world", "nothing is going to be the same" etc. Certainly this is new and if anything gets me "depressed" is fact that people are so easy to manipulate, so quick to believe things without giving it a thought.
Mantra now is "AI will dominate soon". And like I said - that magical "5 years" after which AI will dominate stays 5 years. No matter that two of these years has passed and really and truly not much has changed. AI was very quick to develop in the beginning and then seems like it reached plateau. But hype is still going strong, "nothing will be ever the same again" and "you will see in 5 years", blablabla. And if you are not buying into the hype - of course you are being ridiculed as "luddite"
AI is just called that but it doesnt think. It has no idea about composition, colors, light, perspective... It doesnt know that if cable reaches one side of something should go out on the other side etc. It has no concept of making anything historically accurate because it is just mashing pictures together and if it was tagged "Roman helmet" it will use it even if its not. All it does is just copying and mashing iterations together. Sometimes better, sometimes worse. Its really far far away from replacing people for something more demanding. As all AI is - nobody solved main problem with it - hallucinations (I love how they are trying hard to anthropomorphize simple software error ) . Some AI tools would be nice to see, why not. I dont mind that automatic fill for pictures. Its like better content aware. Bring it on. Or automatic bitmap tracing powered by some "AI". Bring it too. Just dont bloat everything with some absurd AI toys like "automatic smile detection" or something.
Can you replace SOME jobs with it? Sure. But how the heck moving to different field will solve anything? Arent we told that AI will replace nearly everybody everywhere? Unless they are moving from being to designer to being a plumber I dont see how it makes sense. Just because we have image spitters now people change their life plan? I dont know man, it all seems so silly. I guess I will stay that "luddite who will be replaced in 5 years" for couple more years
Ha! You will be surprised how many similarities is between us I am also more into 3D sculpt that does not require texture, also for table top games, miniatures. Youre in Spain I see? So many fantastic miniature painters are from Spain. Mexico here although I am Polish so.. its a long story hahaha.
Anyways, yeah I was also doing this or that - recently revived love for retro and pixel art. And who knows, maybe I will go more retro and get that oil painting going. I did few murals in my time. You cant paint a real wall in real world with AI. You can only pretend you did. Pretty much like everything with AI - you can pretend it was you who created it, pretend it is actually thinking... Its a pretending tool Saludos!

Never said that. I really think these are not tools for professionals for simple reason that are very limited to what you can do with it.
For simple thing - simple tool. Let me ask you then - do you think every single visual job for these companies is made using Canva? Of course its good enough to slap photo with text on Instagram for ANY company. They are not making packaging or visualization in Canva.
Its funny how you are going against what Canva itself stated. Maybe go to them end explain them how they are wrong according to you.
@SrPx I understand you completely. Whats more I have a son in therapy now so my understanding of the issue is even deeper. I was raised in country (and times) where therapy was not an option. Not sure if it was better or worse - I just react differently to all that news. Also I am older so I have benefit of experience and perspective on things. I have seen many other "ends of the world", "nothing is going to be the same" etc. Certainly this is new and if anything gets me "depressed" is fact that people are so easy to manipulate, so quick to believe things without giving it a thought.
Mantra now is "AI will dominate soon". And like I said - that magical "5 years" after which AI will dominate stays 5 years. No matter that two of these years has passed and really and truly not much has changed. AI was very quick to develop in the beginning and then seems like it reached plateau. But hype is still going strong, "nothing will be ever the same again" and "you will see in 5 years", blablabla. And if you are not buying into the hype - of course you are being ridiculed as "luddite"
AI is just called that but it doesnt think. It has no idea about composition, colors, light, perspective... It doesnt know that if cable reaches one side of something should go out on the other side etc. It has no concept of making anything historically accurate because it is just mashing pictures together and if it was tagged "Roman helmet" it will use it even if its not. All it does is just copying and mashing iterations together. Sometimes better, sometimes worse. Its really far far away from replacing people for something more demanding. As all AI is - nobody solved main problem with it - hallucinations (I love how they are trying hard to anthropomorphize simple software error ) . Some AI tools would be nice to see, why not. I dont mind that automatic fill for pictures. Its like better content aware. Bring it on. Or automatic bitmap tracing powered by some "AI". Bring it too. Just dont bloat everything with some absurd AI toys like "automatic smile detection" or something.
Can you replace SOME jobs with it? Sure. But how the heck moving to different field will solve anything? Arent we told that AI will replace nearly everybody everywhere? Unless they are moving from being to designer to being a plumber I dont see how it makes sense. Just because we have image spitters now people change their life plan? I dont know man, it all seems so silly. I guess I will stay that "luddite who will be replaced in 5 years" for couple more years
Ha! You will be surprised how many similarities is between us I am also more into 3D sculpt that does not require texture, also for table top games, miniatures. Youre in Spain I see? So many fantastic miniature painters are from Spain. Mexico here although I am Polish so.. its a long story hahaha.
Anyways, yeah I was also doing this or that - recently revived love for retro and pixel art. And who knows, maybe I will go more retro and get that oil painting going. I did few murals in my time. You cant paint a real wall in real world with AI. You can only pretend you did. Pretty much like everything with AI - you can pretend it was you who created it, pretend it is actually thinking... Its a pretending tool Saludos!

Agreed in everything, so, not much to discuss 

Although, I am afraid that a lot of younger artists (reading gazillions of posts and comments everywhere about AI and art) are feeling a lot of struggle (I was not expecting so much impact in their mood, honestly), not having certain "psychological defenses" and experience (both of which come with age) to avoid 'panicking', and I can't really tell them much to change their mood. And, crazy as it sounds, I have found some in severe depression due to this (or so they say...but some things are clear symptoms) ... I can say some inspiring words, but in those cases I tell them to go to therapy, ASAP. As, obviously, they have additional problems. Even having to learn an entire new job profile and in a drastically different field (I've done it so many times already, lol) ...even in such context, that should never happen, not solely for that reason, at least. But definitely, the whole situation doesn't help.

BTW, I see it more complicated that AI would replace graphic designers (and developers).  We've been always using tools to apply our composition, color and etc (serving to function, all that puzzle) in the most productive and smartest way, yet keeping a coherence and style; this seems like another iteration. But illustration (honestly, I identify more with this field even if I have worked a lot more as a designer at companies) would be more wrecked. I've seen several writers -even some that dealt with me in the past- that are now generating their book cover illustrations "for free". Less so with interior pages illustrations, as for now, iterations with a same character, many poses, really varied yet keeping the character through all the story, adding subtle personality details... (heck, even a same environment/building in different angles) this is a bit of a struggle yet with AI (for now). Mostly due to the seed mechanism and  that it can't really "understand" what it is doing (again, for now. With AGI, we'd see). That and copyright/regulation/etc. But I am seeing already a percentage of "replacement". It's never going to be a 100%, I agree on that. And all that of "people need people", etc. But I am seeing already a lot of newbies and pros moving to other job fields. Through the years, I've always been "switching". From doing 3D, illustration, game art (and in there, everything from pixel art, to low pol to sculpting,  UI art...), web design, graphic design, teaching or web coding. Depending on opportunities (long ago, but I've even worked in tech support, lol), or on if the thing dries up a bit in this or that, or etc. So it's not a drastic change. But... in artwork the things are more severe. In digital painting, as... traditional is even stronger, now! Time to go back to my oils 😅. 
I will check that new tool now. Surprisingly, I had not even heard about it. I use Substance 3D Painter less now, as I have been focusing mostly on 2D.  3D for game miniatures, 3D printed, if anything (isolated gigs that don't require texturing). Looking at that site right now, it looks interesting. Specially for those producing an indy game (or for triple A studios), as it seems to focus a lot in automation, procedural stuff...  and with the number of assets even an indie game needs today, it looks convenient.