you will fine Affinity is not as free as you might think

yes, you create the fee canvas account then et voila you can get Affinity.

But there is a but. There are limitations with the free version...

It is free lunch but not the full 3 c courses far from it.

Also, I work with quite few designers, graphistes, etc...

Like it or not, Adobe is a de facto standard. It is the same with. o365 and some 3D products.

Plenty of really good compatible products but not 100% the product..

If you work own your own, no problem use what you want, but the snag is when you need to send your work to a business.

It will have to be Adobe compatible format and making sure you do not loose anything during the conversion.

But how can you check? you will need the Adobe product.

Another example is Blender. NO point to send your work as a .blend file,