I think there is some confusion about what Alpha and Beta is:
first there is user research to understand your users, what their user needs are, who they are, how they work, their context
then based on this (and only after) you develop ideas for how you might meet these user needs .. these ideas become experiments to test ... that is what an alpha is .. an alpha is one of potentially many experiments to see of your ideas really do meet user needs in an efficient and pleasant manner as possible
beta is where you have already established how you're going to meet user needs, and have the evidence that it works .. you then test .. test.. test.. for bugs, issues that didn't emerge earlier from use at scale, many more and different kinds of users and use cases ...
So right now it seems that Affinity are experimenting to see how they can meet user's needs for creating documents / books with over 100, maybe even 600, pages. Right now the alpha is proving that you can't.
Like someone said earlier - alpha and beta are not points on a timescale to product launch, nor are they a division of product features or user stories.
So - perhaps we're being really stupid and Affinity has an even better way of meeting the needs of users who need to produce documents with more than 10 pages ... in which case the calls for them to be open and publish their user research and user stories are well founded.
But they haven't, and they continue to censor / "approve" posts here. Which suggests they've gone further in the direction they should - closed secretive design by committee. They've already been a little arrogant here and told someone they "have over 25+ years of DTP experience and know what we're doing" to paraphrase.
Evidently not.
