I am a moderately new user… and totally new to the forum.
My background with digitally created art goes back to 1990.
I am always on the look out for art driven and digitally practical applications.
Affinity Designer is a welcome revival (in the making) of something like the old Creature House Expression3 (E3) vector/raster hybrid art application. (Even the early Microsoft Acrylic beta application… the last real upgrade of a great piece of art creation software.)
I continue to use Expression