Aborto

Well yea, I guess that's not really a good example, the crop tool is fine although I feel like crop to selection is a simple option that really should be there. Constraining selection to an aspect ratio doesn't have a great workaround that I have seen, especially if you don't want to crop at that stage and just need the selection.

Yea, cropping is simple to work around in several ways, although I still find the current implementation much more annoying to use vs the simple crop to selection in paint.net or PS. The rectangular marquee selection tool in both paint.net and PS allows you to simply set an aspect ration to constrain the selection tool, this makes it incredibly easy to select an area to fit say a 21:9 monitor for example. The workarounds I have seen suggested to do this are crazy, I feel like its a pretty basic and critical feature to be missing from the selection tool. Combine the two together and a fairly common simple workflow I do (open an image, select an area to fit the aspect ratio of the monitor, then crop to that selection) are exceedingly complicated vs any other image editors I have used. Paint.net takes seconds and a few clicks to complete this, I had to read walkthroughs to get it done in Affinity (I am far from an expert at photo editing admittedly).

One of the simpler but common use cases I have has proven to be much more difficult in Affinity photo than I expected and came as quite a surprise to me. I commonly crop sections from large images to a smaller size for use as desktop backgrounds and found affinity has no option to constrain a selection box by aspect ratio, and no option to crop to selection. While there are workarounds for both they are unnecessarily complicated for what seem like incredibly basic operations.