AD - Basic Brushes from 1.6: pure vector?

[appearsharmless]

If I'm understanding correctly (and I may not be) the only pure vector brushes in Affinity Designer 1.8.3 are the first two brushes in the "Pens" category. I downloaded the brushes from 1.6 and loaded them into AD, and none of the Basic brushes have an image in the bottom window (where you can set the head/tail offset).

I think this means the brush is pure vector, not a vector line with a raster image stretched along it... is that correct?

Is there any reason I shouldn't use these brushes? (I can't figure out why they were left out of the 1.8x release)

[firstdefence]

Those brushes are “basically” simple shapes, you can edit the “taper" via the brushes size variance setting and also from the stroke panels pressure setting, it can be a bit hit and miss as to whether it works. The brushes are really set up for stylus drawing but I can only talk from my perspective and I’m not a programmer so I don’t understand the complexities but as an end user I find the affinity brushes to be a bit clunky at the moment, I’m sure they will be refined but it can be hard going over other apps such as Krita, media bang and the like.

[appearsharmless]

Thanks, firstdefence. I, too, noticed they were pretty clunky to use... maybe that's why they weren't included in the 1.8 release?

Let me add to my original post (which I made before I had my morning coffee, and it shows):

Are the "Basic" category brushes from the AD 1.6 release pure vector?  (i.e., will the strokes scale infinitely with no jaggies?)

[firstdefence]

2 hours ago, appearsharmless said:

Are the "Basic" category brushes from the AD 1.6 release pure vector?  (i.e., will the strokes scale infinitely with no jaggies?)

Yes