[Magic Wand Tool]

Hi!  I am a professional designer that has always loved Adobe Illustrator and primarily work in vector.  However, I detest Adobe's new subscription model and am very attracted to the price and reviews of Affinity Designer.  I downloaded the trial version last night and tried watching You Tube & Vimeo tutorials, but could not find anything like the Magic Wand Tool.  I use this tool every single day and cannot live without it.  

Am I missing something?  Is there not a way to select all of one color?  The color selection abilities seemed very elementary and more similar to Photoshop which I'm not digging.  I was also having trouble dragging over a group of elements to select and Group.  They would not select.  In my AI files, they were already grouped, but for some reason became UnGrouped when imported into Affinity.  It will take me FOREVER to go in and manually click each little vector detail.  Help!

 

-Lauren