I bought Affinity Photo not being sure it would be able to make batch processing to develop RAWs. Anyway, I've just developed my first picture with it and I'm glad to say it only took me less than 2 hours for a difficult picture* before I have read any help or manual or seen any tutorial.
* a speaker in a convention in a dark room with a bright screen behind him : a dark, underexposed picture with much bur and huge highlights
Unfortunately, I have a bunch of similar picture to process and it will be faster to do the whole with Lightroom.
So, Photo won't allow be to throw Lightroom away just now. But I bought it prior not to have to use Photoshop and to replace The Gimp, a great open software I support for years, but that have some lack of ergonomics and functions.
I'm delighted with Photo and I still wait impatiently to have a better batch RAW development process, but I can't blame Serif not to have it done yet because Photo is already a wonderfull software and a bargain.
Please apologize some languages mistakes I could make : I'm french.
