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Yes, and I don't think anyone is arguing that point.  The fact is that there are a LOT of feature requests floating around in which people are advocating very strongly that the product should never have been released without it, that they have gone several years without being implemented, that each of them should be the #1 priority, ...
Serif is a relatively small company with limited resources with which to implement these features (one of the reasons they can keep the price as low as it is for this quality of software), so they need to prioritize and select which ones make the most sense to implement in what order.  They have already indicated quite strongly that they are hoping to implement this feature, but that when they do, they want to do it very well and it sounds like they planning on doing it in a very big way; they want to implement each feature with a relatively high level of quality rather than rush to get in lots of features that are half-baked.
That will take time, and with so many other things floating around that are much harder to work around or which are impacting a large number of users, it is quite understandable that this will not happen as quickly as some would like.
In this thread, several options have been suggested on how to go about doing this while waiting for Serif to finally get to the point where they can provide this feature.  That is not because people think it is a bad idea, but because they are being more realistic about the amount of time it will probably take before it happens.

I still want this feature too. I don't want to switch to another application just for tracing. In this case I would stay with the other application like Inkscape oder Illustrator.
In my opinion this should be a standard feature for vector based drawing software developed for professionals.

I would still like this to be implemented please

Free alternative is not a solution but a placebo or excuse. I don't know why is so difficult when also Serif DrawPlus, Inkscape or other very simple programs have it.
Btw this should be a post to let Affinity know how much they are in favor of introduction of this function, not to justify their lack. This kind of comments make you lose interest

Free alternative is not a solution but a placebo or excuse. I don't know why is so difficult when also Serif DrawPlus, Inkscape or other very simple programs have it.
Btw this should be a post to let Affinity know how much they are in favor of introduction of this function, not to justify their lack. This kind of comments make you lose interest

Free alternative is not a solution but a placebo or excuse. I don't know why is so difficult when also Serif DrawPlus, Inkscape or other very simple programs have it.
Btw this should be a post to let Affinity know how much they are in favor of introduction of this function, not to justify their lack. This kind of comments make you lose interest

Free alternative is not a solution but a placebo or excuse. I don't know why is so difficult when also Serif DrawPlus, Inkscape or other very simple programs have it.
Btw this should be a post to let Affinity know how much they are in favor of introduction of this function, not to justify their lack. This kind of comments make you lose interest