I suggest that Edit/Preferences (or elsewhere if more appropriate) should allow the user to choose the default to be used.
First suggestion is for Raw Persona, CROP, on the Context Toolbar, MODE: allow one of the drop down values to be the default (would save having to always choose it from the list. e.g. Original Ratio becomes the default.
Also, on the Context Toolbar, OVERLAY, allow to set the default, e.g. Golden Spiral
Second suggestion, Photo Persona, on File/Export dialogue, allow one of the Presets to be selected as the default rather than have to choose it every time.
Small changes, but when you have to mouse/click select to do these things for every photo it wastes time.
I have been using Affinity only during the last few weeks and I am pretty happy with it.
However, as other users, I missing some small things. One of them is the capacity to record a macro in which exporting a file is part of that macro. When I tried that, an Affinity pop-up window said it was not possible to record it. It would be very useful to record the action of exporting a file as one of the available types to a specific location.