Briwells

I totally agree. I come from a Freehand background and I think the layers issue in adobe and affinity is a confusing clutter. can we please have an option so that the user can choose automatic layers or selected layers where required. I don’t need dozens of elements showing up as sub - layers. If I convert a string of text into paths, every character is shown in the layers palette.

After converting text to paths, how do I combine the individual characters to make one shape without overlaps: